Buffer Overflow Affecting vim-enhanced package, versions <2:9.1.083-5.el10_0.4


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-VIMENHANCED-18861850
  • published17 Aug 2026
  • disclosed25 Jun 2026

Introduced: 25 Jun 2026

CVE-2026-55693  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:10 vim-enhanced to version 2:9.1.083-5.el10_0.4 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2026:55431.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream vim-enhanced package and not the vim-enhanced package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

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