Description
A flaw was found in the interactive shell of the xmllint command-line tool, used for parsing XML files. When a user inputs an overly long command, the program does not check the input size properly, which can cause it to crash. This issue might allow attackers to run harmful code in rare configurations without modern protections.
CVSS breakdown
CVSS 3.1
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
Affected products
- RedHat / enterprise_linux9.0 – 9.0
- RedHat / enterprise_linux10.0 – 10.0
- RedHat / enterprise_linux6.0 – 6.0
- RedHat / enterprise_linux7.0 – 7.0
- RedHat / enterprise_linux8.0 – 8.0
- RedHat / jboss_core_services
- RedHat / openshift_container_platform4.0 – 4.0
- xmlsoft / libxml2
References
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36734
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:39304
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:39317
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:44481
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:46836
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53371
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:58981
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:7519
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6170
- MISChttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2372952
- MISChttps://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/941
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