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Medium ALAS2-2026-3827 1 CVE

Moderate: libxml2 security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jul 20, 2026 · Updated Aug 4, 2026

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-11979: 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.

Fixed packages 5

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 libxml2 0:2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.26
Amazon Linux · 2 libxml2-debuginfo 0:2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.26
Amazon Linux · 2 libxml2-devel 0:2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.26
Amazon Linux · 2 libxml2-python 0:2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.26
Amazon Linux · 2 libxml2-static 0:2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.26

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Low 1.8

    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 inp…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-11979.html