SB2026012787 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Libxml2
Published: January 27, 2026
Breakdown by Severity
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- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-0992)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when processing XML catalogs that contain repeated <nextCatalog> elements pointing to the same downstream catalog. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
2) Uncontrolled Recursion (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-0990)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an uncontrolled recursion in the xmlCatalogXMLResolveURI function when an XML catalog contains a delegate URI entry that references itself. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service attack.
3) Uncontrolled Recursion (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-0989)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an uncontrolled recursion in the RelaxNG parser. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service attack.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-0992
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2429975
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-0990
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2429959
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-0989
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2429933