CVE-2026-59857 PUBLISHED

Vim: Out-of-bounds Write in SAL Soundfolding

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 07.07.2026 Published: 09.07.2026 Updated: 10.07.2026

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0725, the single-byte branch of spell_soundfold_sal() in src/spell.c translates a word through a spell file's SAL sound-folding rules into a caller-owned result buffer, but its result writes are guarded with reslen < MAXWLEN, allowing reslen to reach MAXWLEN before res[reslen] = NUL writes one byte past the end of the MAXWLEN-element stack buffer. A boundary-length word passed to soundfold(), or reached via sound-based spell suggestion while a SAL-based spell language is active under a non-multibyte 8-bit encoding, can corrupt the eval_soundfold() stack frame and crash the editor. This issue is fixed in version 9.2.0725.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 5.6

Product Status

Vendor vim
Product vim
Versions
  • Version < 9.2.0725 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write CWE