Buffer Access with Incorrect Length Value The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libxml2-python  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-LIBXML2PYTHON-19765045
  • published27 Sept 2026
  • disclosed5 Sept 2026

Introduced: 5 Sep 2026

CVE-2026-86142  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-805  (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-python package and not the libxml2-python package as distributed by RHEL.

In libxml2 before 2.15.4, there is a heap-based buffer overflow in xmlXPtrEvalXPtrPart because of xmlXPtrEval xpointer length saturation.