Stack-Based Buffer Overflow in libxml2_CVE-2026-11979

1.8 / 10

LOW

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Description

libxml2 is vulnerable to multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the xmlcatalog utility when running in --shell mode. The usershell() function processes user input using fixed-size stack buffers without proper bounds checking.
By supplying an overly long input line, an attacker can overflow internal buffers (command, arg, and argv) during input parsing. This results in memory corruption within the stack frame.
Successful exploitation may cause a crash or potentially allow arbitrary code execution in the context of the xmlcatalog process.

This issue has been fixed in the commit c2e233fc.

NOTE:
The maintainers of this project did not agree that this issue is a vulnerability and considered it a bug.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-11979

Source CERT-PL

Published Jun 29, 2026 at 13:21

Modified Jun 29, 2026 at 13:59

Affected Product

Vendor xmlsoft

Product libxml2

Affected Versions xmlsoft libxml2 0

CWE Classification

CWE-121

References

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