Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libxml2-static  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-LIBXML2STATIC-17493862
  • 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 Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:6.

NVD Description

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

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.