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openSUSE Vim Important Command Injection & Heap Overflow Vuln 2026-2236-1

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Calendar Grey June 4, 2026
Dist Suse Esm H88
Critical vim security update addresses multiple vulnerabilities across SUSE distributions including command injection and buffer overflow.
An update that solves five vulnerabilities and has one security 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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Topics Covered

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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-2026:2236-1
Release Date: 2026-06-03T11:01:09Z
Rating: important

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