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openSUSE Leap 16.0 vim Important Exec Command Issues 2026-20403-1

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Calendar Grey March 28, 2026
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This advisory covers important vim security updates on openSUSE, addressing critical vulnerabilities with patches available.
An update that solves 3 vulnerabilities and has 3 bug fixes can now be installed.

Description

This update for vim fixes the following issues:

- Update Vim to version 9.2.0110 that includes security fixes for:

* CVE-2026-28417: crafted URL parsed by netrw plugin can lead to execute arbitrary shell commands (bsc#1259051).

* CVE-2026-26269: stack buffer overflow in Vim's NetBeans integration when processing the specialKeys command (bsc#1258229).

* CVE-2025-53906: path traversal in Vim's zip.vim plugin (bsc#1246602).

- Other changes:

* Add wayland-client to BuildRequires and enable Wayland support.

* Add Wayland include path to CFLAGS to fix clipboard compilation.

* Package new Swedish (sv) man pages and clean up duplicate encodings (sv.ISO8859-1 and sv.UTF-8).

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-16.0-417=1

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Topics Covered

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Patch

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 16.0:

gvim-9.2.0110-160000.1.1

vim-9.2.0110-160000.1.1

vim-data-9.2.0110-160000.1.1

vim-data-common-9.2.0110-160000.1.1

vim-small-9.2.0110-160000.1.1

xxd-9.2.0110-160000.1.1

References

* bsc#1246602

* bsc#1258229

* bsc#1259051

References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-53906.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-26269.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-28417.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:20403-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 16.0 -------------------------------------------------------------

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