CVE-2026-45130

Description

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.2.0450, a heap buffer overflow exists in read_compound() in src/spellfile.c when loading a crafted spell file (.spl) with UTF-8 encoding active. An attacker-controlled length field in the spell file's compound section overflows a 32-bit signed integer multiplication, causing a small buffer to be allocated for a write loop that runs many iterations, overflowing the heap. Because the 'spelllang' option can be set from a modeline, a text file modeline can trigger spell file loading if a malicious .spl file has been planted on the runtimepath. This issue has been patched in version 9.2.0450.

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References

• MITRE
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

• USN-8304-1
• Vim vulnerabilities
• 25 May 2026

Other references

• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45130
• https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-q4jv-r9gj-6cwv
• https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/92993329178cb1f72d700fff45ca86e1c2d369f8
• https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.2.0450