Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libxml2  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS6-LIBXML2-17493865
  • published25 Jun 2026
  • disclosed22 Jun 2026

Introduced: 22 Jun 2026

CVE-2026-6653  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:6.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxml2 package and not the libxml2 package as distributed by Centos.

Use After Free in libxml2's xmlParseInternalSubset from GNOME libxml2 version 2.9.11 to 2.11.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service via maliciously crafted XML input with improper entity resolution handling.