CVE-2026-57455 PUBLISHED

Vim: Stack out-of-bounds write in `spell_soundfold_sofo()` via an over-length `soundfold()` argument

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 24.06.2026 Published: 25.06.2026 Updated: 25.06.2026

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0698, the single-byte branch of spell_soundfold_sofo() in src/spell.c translates a word through a spell file's SOFO (sound-folding) byte map into a caller-owned result buffer. Its copy loop advances the output index ri with no upper bound and terminates only on the input NUL, writing one byte per input byte into the MAXWLEN-element stack buffer the caller provides. A word longer than MAXWLEN, passed to soundfold() (or reached via sound-based spell suggestion) while a SOFO-based spell language is active, therefore writes past the end of that buffer. This is a stack out-of-bounds write that corrupts the call frame and crashes the editor. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0698.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
CVSS Score: 4

Product Status

Vendor vim
Product vim
Versions
  • Version < 9.2.0698 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write CWE