Bug 2530724 - CVE-2026-86138 mingw-libxml2: libxml2: Arbitrary code execution via heap-based buffer overflow [epel-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-86138 mingw-libxml2: libxml2: Arbitrary code execution via heap-base...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: mingw-libxml2
Version: epel10
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Richard W.M. Jones
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2026-86138
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Reported: 2026-09-09 11:21 UTC by Srikanth Balasubramanian
Modified: 2026-09-09 11:21 UTC (History)
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Description Srikanth Balasubramanian 2026-09-09 11:21:14 UTC
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In libxml2 before 2.15.4, xmlDictAddQString in dict.c has an integer overflow and resultant heap-based buffer overflow.


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