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Details of issue NIXPKGS-2026-2026

NIXPKGS-2026-2026
published 6 hours ago
Stack-Based Buffer Overflow in libxml2
Permalink CVE-2026-11979
1.8 LOW
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 4.0
  • Attack Vector (AV): Local (L)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
  • Attack Requirement (AT): Present (P)
  • Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
  • User Interaction (UI): Active (A)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA): Low (L)
  • Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC): Low (L)
  • Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI): Low (L)
  • Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA): None (N)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Local (L)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
  • Modified Attack Requirement (MAT): Present (P)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): Active (A)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (MVC): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (MVI): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Availability (MVA): Low (L)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (MSC): Low (L)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Integrity (MSI): Low (L)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Availability (MSA): Negligible (N)
  • Safety (S): Not Defined (X)
  • Automatable (AU): Not Defined (X)
  • Recovery (R): Not Defined (X)
  • Value Density (V): Not Defined (X)
  • Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Not Defined (X)
  • Provider Urgency (U): Not Defined (X)
  • Confidentiality Req. (CR): Not Defined (X)
  • Integrity Req. (IR): Not Defined (X)
  • Availability Req. (AR): Not Defined (X)
  • Exploit Maturity (E): Not Defined (X)
updated 6 hours ago by @LeSuisse Activity log
  • Created suggestion
  • @LeSuisse ignored
    9 packages
    • libxml2Python
    • sbclPackages.cl-libxml2
    • perlPackages.AlienLibxml2
    • python312Packages.libxml2
    • python313Packages.libxml2
    • python314Packages.libxml2
    • perl5Packages.AlienLibxml2
    • perl538Packages.AlienLibxml2
    • perl540Packages.AlienLibxml2
  • @LeSuisse accepted
  • @LeSuisse published on GitHub
Stack-Based Buffer Overflow in libxml2

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.

Affected products

libxml2
  • =<2.15.3

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