USN-8460-1 libxml2 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that libxml2 did not properly release memory allocated in the xmllint utility. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. CVE-2026-1757 A type confusion vulnerability was found in libxml2 when processing a specially crafted XML document. A remote...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-1757

A flaw was identified in the interactive shell of the xmllint utility, part of the libxml2 project, where memory allocated for user input is not properly released under certain conditions. When a user submits input consisting only of whitespace, the program skips command execution but fails to fr...