CVE-2026-57455

NameCVE-2026-57455
DescriptionVim 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.
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Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
vim (PTS)bullseye2:8.2.2434-3+deb11u1vulnerable
bullseye (security)2:8.2.2434-3+deb11u3vulnerable
bookworm2:9.0.1378-2+deb12u2vulnerable
trixie2:9.1.1230-2vulnerable
forky, sid2:9.2.0524-1vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
vimsource(unstable)(unfixed)

Notes

https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-q8mh-6qm3-25g4
Fixed by: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/497f931f85339d175d7f69588dd249e8ccfed41b (v9.2.0698)

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