Bug 2528988 (CVE-2026-86141) - CVE-2026-86141 libxml2: libxml2: Denial of Service due to NULL pointer dereference in xmlRegNewParserCtxt
Summary: CVE-2026-86141 libxml2: libxml2: Denial of Service due to NULL pointer derefe...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-86141
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-05 04:41 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-08 16:23 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-05 04:41:25 UTC 
xmlregexp in libxml2 before 2.15.4 has a NULL pointer dereference in xmlRegNewParserCtxt after a strdup failure, i.e., it does not calculate a string length after NULL checking.
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