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SUSE vim Crucial Command Injection and Buffer Overflow Alert 2026-21833-1

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Calendar Grey May 29, 2026
Dist Suse Esm H88
A security update for vim on SUSE addressing six vulnerabilities rated as important, including command injections.
An update that solves six vulnerabilities and has one fix can now be installed.

Summary

## This update for vim fixes the following issues * CVE-2026-39881: command injection in NetBeans interface can lead to arbitrary file reads and writes (bsc#1261833). * CVE-2026-42307: Prior to version 9.2.0383, an OS command injection vulnerability exists in the netrw standard plugin bundled with Vim (bsc#1264706). * CVE-2026-43961: Vimscript Code Injection in netrw NetrwMarkFile() via crafted filename (bsc#1265349). * CVE-2026-44656: Prior to version 9.2.0435, an OS command injection vulnerability exists in Vim's: find command-line completion (bsc#1264707). * CVE-2026-45130: Prior to version 9.2.0450, a heap buffer overflow exists in read_compound() in src/spellfile.c when loading a crafted spell file (.spl) with UTF-8 encoding active (bsc#1264708).

References

* bsc#1261833

* bsc#1262395

* bsc#1264706

* bsc#1264707

* bsc#1264708

* bsc#1265349

* bsc#1265360

Cross-

* CVE-2026-39881

* CVE-2026-42307

* CVE-2026-43961

* CVE-2026-44656

* CVE-2026-45130

* CVE-2026-46483

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2026-39881 ( SUSE ): 5.3

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2026-39881 ( SUSE ): 6.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

* CVE-2026-39881 ( NVD ): 5.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

* CVE-2026-39881 ( NVD ): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2026-42307 ( NVD ): 4.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

* CVE-2026-43961 ( SUSE ): 5.4

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:21833-1
Release Date: 2026-05-28T12:13:40Z
Rating: important

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