Security Advisory

CVE-2026-86143

6.9
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

In xmlIO in libxml2 before 2.15.4, an inconsistency in xmlOutputWriteCallback and xmlBufUse causes negative lengths to reach write callbacks, aka a lack of a check for integer overflow before calling writecallback. This has security relevance for many types of uses of that length value within a callback.
Published Date September 5, 2026
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory