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Significant command injection vulnerability found in vim for SUSE Linux

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Calendar Grey June 1, 2026
Dist Suse Esm H88
Important security update for SUSE Linux addresses six issues in vim, ensuring system integrity against 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-2026:21859-1
Release Date: 2026-05-28T12:13:40Z
Rating: important

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