Bug 2492980 (CVE-2026-55693) - CVE-2026-55693 vim: Vim: Out-of-bounds Write in Spell File Word Count
Summary: CVE-2026-55693 vim: Vim: Out-of-bounds Write in Spell File Word Count
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-55693
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security
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Depends On: 2498957
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-06-25 16:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-07-10 10:08 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-25 16:02:46 UTC
Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0653, the tree_count_words() function in src/spellfile.c fills in the word-count fields of a spell-file word trie by walking it iteratively with a depth counter. 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 (arridx[], curi[], wordcount[]). A crafted .spl/.sug file pair, loaded when the user invokes spell suggestion, 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 9.2.0653.


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