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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-55693

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...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 vim
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]
Debian:13 vim
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]
Debian:14 vim
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2:9.2.0782-1"}]}]

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