Bug 2498863 (CVE-2026-59857) - CVE-2026-59857 vim: Vim: Denial of Service via out-of-bounds write in spell sound-folding
Summary: CVE-2026-59857 vim: Vim: Denial of Service via out-of-bounds write in spell s...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-59857
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On: 2499636
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-07-09 23:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-10 11:43 UTC (History)
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2026:66336 0 None None None 2026-09-10 06:31:39 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2026:66348 0 None None None 2026-09-10 08:56:15 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2026:66366 0 None None None 2026-09-10 11:43:07 UTC

Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-09 23:01:50 UTC
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.

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2026-09-10 06:31:38 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Via RHSA-2026:66336 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:66336

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2026-09-10 08:56:14 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2026:66348 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:66348

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2026-09-10 11:43:05 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2026:66366 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:66366


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