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SUSE 2026-21948-1 Vim Major Fix for Command Injection and Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey June 2, 2026
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SUSE announces important security update for Vim addressing multiple vulnerabilities with fixes and patches.
An update that solves five vulnerabilities and has one fix can now be installed.

Summary

## This update for vim fixes the following issues * 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). * CVE-2026-46483: command injection via `tar#Vimuntar()` in `runtime/autoload/tar.vim` when decompressing `.tgz` archives on Unix-like systems (bsc#1265360).

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security advisory SuSE important heap overflow command injection vim

References

* bsc#1262395

* bsc#1264706

* bsc#1264707

* bsc#1264708

* bsc#1265349

* bsc#1265360

Cross-

* CVE-2026-42307

* CVE-2026-43961

* CVE-2026-44656

* CVE-2026-45130

* CVE-2026-46483

CVSS scores:

* 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

* CVE-2026-43961 ( SUSE ): 4.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

* CVE-2026-44656 ( SUSE ): 4.6

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

* CVE-2026-44656 ( SUSE ): 4.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

* CVE-2026-44656 ( NVD ): 4.6

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:21948-1
Release Date: 2026-06-01T10:45:03Z
Rating: important

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