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CVE-2026-59857

MEDIUM
5.6
CVSS 4.0
Description
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.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-59857
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Reserved
2026-07-07 15:41 UTC
Published
2026-07-09 22:34 UTC
Last updated
2026-07-09 22:34 UTC
Primary CWE
CWE-787
CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write
Vendor / Product
vim / vim
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

5.6 MEDIUM CVSS 4.0
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
Affected products (1)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
vim vim < 9.2.0725
Weakness (CWE)
CWESourceDescription
CWE-787 cna CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write
CVSS scores (1)
ScoreSeverityVersionSourceVector
5.6 MEDIUM 4.0 cna 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
References (2)
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