SUSE SLES12 Security Update : vim (SUSE-SU-2026:1051-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 303938

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:1051-1 advisory.

Update Vim to version 9.2.0110:

- CVE-2025-53906: malicious zip archive may cause a path traversal in Vim's zip (bsc#1246602).
- CVE-2026-26269: Netbeans specialKeys stack buffer overflow (bsc#1258229).
- CVE-2026-28417: Fixed that a crafted URL parsed by netrw plugin can lead to execute arbitrary shell commands (bsc#1259051).
- CVE-2026-28418: Fixed that a malformed tags file can cause an heap-based buffer overflow out-of-bounds read (bsc#1259052)
- CVE-2026-28419: Fixed processing a malformed tags file containing a delimiter can lead to a crash (bsc#1259053)
- CVE-2026-28420: Fixed that processing maximum combining characters in terminal emulator can lead to heap-based buffer overflow write (bsc#1259054)
- CVE-2026-28421: Fixed that a crafted swap file can cause a heap-buffer-overflow and a segmentation fault
- CVE-2026-28422: Fixed that a malicious modeline or plugin can trigger a stack-buffer-overflow (bsc#1259056)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected gvim, vim, vim-data and / or vim-data-common packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 303938

File Name: suse_SU-2026-1051-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/27/2026

Updated: 4/9/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-26269

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-28421

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:vim-data, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gvim, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:vim, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:vim-data-common

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/26/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/15/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-53906, CVE-2026-26269, CVE-2026-28417, CVE-2026-28418, CVE-2026-28419, CVE-2026-28420, CVE-2026-28421, CVE-2026-28422

IAVA: 2025-A-0527-S, 2026-A-0173-S, 2026-A-0195

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:1051-1

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