Integer Overflow or Wraparound The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libxml2  (opens in a new tab)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-RHEL7-LIBXML2-19761725
  • published13 Sept 2026
  • disclosed5 Sept 2026

Introduced: 5 Sep 2026

CVE-2026-86138  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.

NVD Description

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

In libxml2 before 2.15.4, xmlDictAddQString in dict.c has an integer overflow and resultant heap-based buffer overflow.