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openSUSE Leap 16.0 Advisory 20540-1 vim Important Command Injection Risk

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Calendar Grey April 21, 2026
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This security advisory details important updates for vim on openSUSE, addressing command injection and code execution risks.
An update that solves 3 vulnerabilities and has 3 bug fixes can now be installed.

Description

This update for vim fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2026-33412: command injection via newline in glob() (bsc#1259985).

- CVE-2026-34714: crafted file can allow code execution (bsc#1261191).

- CVE-2026-34982: Vim modeline bypass via various options (bsc#1261271).

Patch instructions:

To install this openSUSE security update use the suse recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 16.0

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-Leap-16.0-563=1

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution important command injection OpenSUSE modeline bypass

Patch

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 16.0:

gvim-9.2.0280-160000.1.1

vim-9.2.0280-160000.1.1

vim-data-9.2.0280-160000.1.1

vim-data-common-9.2.0280-160000.1.1

vim-small-9.2.0280-160000.1.1

xxd-9.2.0280-160000.1.1

References

* bsc#1259985

* bsc#1261191

* bsc#1261271

References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-33412.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-34714.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-34982.html

Severity
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:20540-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 16.0 -------------------------------------------------------------

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution important command injection OpenSUSE modeline bypass

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