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CVE-2026-55892

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS 3.1
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.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-55892
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Reserved
2026-06-17 16:59 UTC
Published
2026-06-25 15:32 UTC
Last updated
2026-06-25 15:32 UTC
Primary CWE
CWE-787
CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write
Vendor / Product
vim / vim
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

5.5 MEDIUM CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products (1)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
vim vim < 9.2.0662
Weakness (CWE)
CWESourceDescription
CWE-787 cna CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write
CVSS scores (1)
ScoreSeverityVersionSourceVector
5.5 MEDIUM 3.1 cna CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
References (3)
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