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Fix CVE(s): CVE-2026-86142
Type: advisorySources: OSV
* SECURITY UPDATE: heap-based buffer overflow in XPointer expression parsing - debian/patches/CVE-2026-86142.patch: reject XPointer parts longer than INT_MAX before allocating xmlXPtrEvalXPtrPart()'s copy buffer, avoiding xmlStrlen() wraparound and the resulting heap overflow - CVE-2026-86142
- Products
- libxml2, libxml2-dev, libxml2-doc, libxml2-utils, python-libxml2, python3-libxml2
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.9.10+dfsg-5ubuntu0.20.04.10+tuxcare.els15
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-86142
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 11:24 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
* SECURITY UPDATE: heap-based buffer overflow in XPointer expression parsing - debian/patches/CVE-2026-86142.patch: reject XPointer parts longer than INT_MAX before allocating xmlXPtrEvalXPtrPart()'s copy buffer, avoiding xmlStrlen() wraparound and the resulting heap overflow - CVE-2026-86142
osv:CLSA-2026-1789747948
libxml2
Fixed versions: 2.9.10+dfsg-5ubuntu0.20.04.10+tuxcare.els15
libxml2-dev
Fixed versions: 2.9.10+dfsg-5ubuntu0.20.04.10+tuxcare.els15
libxml2-doc
Fixed versions: 2.9.10+dfsg-5ubuntu0.20.04.10+tuxcare.els15
libxml2-utils
Fixed versions: 2.9.10+dfsg-5ubuntu0.20.04.10+tuxcare.els15
python-libxml2
Fixed versions: 2.9.10+dfsg-5ubuntu0.20.04.10+tuxcare.els15
python3-libxml2
Fixed versions: 2.9.10+dfsg-5ubuntu0.20.04.10+tuxcare.els15
Complete source record
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