CVE-2026-59857

MEDIUM

Vim < 9.2.0725 - SAL Soundfolding Out-of-Bounds Write

Title source: manual
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (2)

Core 2

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0011
EPSS Percentile 1.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (1)
vim/vim < 9.2.0725 (2 CPE variants)
Published Jul 09, 2026
Tracked Since Jul 10, 2026