CVE-2026-55892 PUBLISHED

Vim: Out-of-bounds Write in Spell File Prefix Dump

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 17.06.2026 Published: 25.06.2026 Updated: 25.06.2026

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.

Metrics

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

Product Status

Vendor vim
Product vim
Versions
  • Version < 9.2.0662 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write CWE