RHSA-2026:80675 — Security Advisory

An update for libxml2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The libxml2 library is a development toolbox providing the implementation of various XML standards.

Security Fix(es):

• libxml2: libxml2: Heap-based buffer overflow in xmlXPtrEval due to xpointer length saturation (CVE-2026-86142)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.