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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.
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Via RHSA-2026:47982 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:47982
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2026:48703 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:48703
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Via RHSA-2026:48650 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:48650