Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package vim (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-VIM-18871834
- published18 Aug 2026
- disclosed11 Aug 2026
Introduced: 11 Aug 2026
CVE-2026-73072 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream vim package and not the vim package as distributed by RHEL.
Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0846, set_sofo() in src/spellfile.c reuses sl_sal_first[] without resetting values left by set_sal_first(), so a crafted spell file containing an SN_SAL section before an SN_SOFO section causes under-counted mapping lists and attacker-influenced writes beyond a heap allocation. This issue is fixed in version 9.2.0846.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2514037
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-73072
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:66336
- https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/05c41c922309c7a11b6ec2f124be66551c90d66a
- https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.2.0846
- https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-9jqx-hgpr-6v64