CVE 5.5 MEDIUM

Vim: Out-of-bounds Write in Spell File Prefix Dump_CVE-2026-55892

5.5 / 10
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0662, the dump_prefixes() function in src/spell.c walks a spell-file prefix trie iteratively with a depth counter while dumping the prefixes that apply to a word. The counter is bounded only by the trie structure itself; it is never checked against the size of the fixed MAXWLEN-element stack arrays it indexes (prefix[], arridx[], curi[]). A crafted .spl file, loaded when the user dumps the word list, can drive the descent arbitrarily deep, so the function writes past the end of those arrays. This is a stack out-of-bounds write that corrupts the call frame and crashes the editor. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0662.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-55892
Source GitHub_M
Published Jun 25, 2026 at 15:32

Affected Product

Vendor vim
Product vim
Version < 9.2.0662
Affected Versions vim vim < 9.2.0662

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