vim: Vim: Out-of-bounds Write in Spell File Word Count

A flaw was found in Vim, an open-source command-line text editor. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by tricking a user into loading a specially crafted spell file. When the user invokes spell suggestion, the editor attempts to process the malicious file, leading to an out-of-boun...

CVE-2026-55693 Vim: Out-of-bounds Write in Spell File Word Count

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0653, the treecountwords 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...