Moderate: vim security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-1154  

Synopsis

Moderate: vim security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for vim is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a
detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE
link(s) in the References section.

Description

Vim (Vi IMproved) is an updated and improved version of the vi editor.

Security Fix(es):

  • vim: use after free in utf_ptr2char (CVE-2022-1154)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in
this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le

Fixes

  • BZ - 2073013 - CVE-2022-1154 vim: use after free in utf_ptr2char