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
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)
| Vendor | Product | Platform | Versions |
|---|---|---|---|
| vim | vim | — | < 9.2.0725 |
Weakness (CWE)
| CWE | Source | Description |
|---|---|---|
| CWE-787 | cna | CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write |
CVSS scores (1)
| Score | Severity | Version | Source | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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)
- https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-m3hf-xcm3-xhm2 https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-m3hf-xcm3-xhm2
- https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/d22ff1c955ff87e8273210eae125aab0e85b6c30 https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/d22ff1c955ff87e8273210eae125aab0e85b6c30