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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-55892

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0662, the dump_prefixes() function in src/spell.c walks a spell-file prefix trie iterati...

Original description

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Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0662, the dump_prefixes() function in src/spell.c walks a spell-file prefix trie iteratively with a depth counter while dumping the prefixes that apply to a word. 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 (prefix[], arridx[], curi[]). A crafted .spl file, loaded when the user dumps the word list, 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 9.2.0662.

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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