Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-71498

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - node-re2 provides RE2 regular expression bindings for Node.js. Prior to version 1.26.1, passing a Buffer whose final bytes form a truncated incomplete multi-byt...

@ahmedwalid05/instagram-private-api (>=1.43.6-0, <=1.43.9), @alwaysmeticulous/cli (>=2.306.0, <=2.308.0) +161 more potentially affected by CVE-2026-71498 via re2 (>=1.8.4, <=1.26.0)

re2 NPM version =1.8.4, =1.43.6-0, =2.306.0, =2.306.0, =1.43.3, =0.1.0, =8.0.0, =8.1.31, =8.0.0, =8.0.0, =1.0.9, =0.0.0-semantic-release, =0.1.1, =1.1.0, =1.2.4 and more Source cves: CVE-2026-71498 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-J4R3-HG7J-8CHG...

CVE-2026-71498

node-re2 provides RE2 regular expression bindings for Node.js. Prior to version 1.26.1, passing a Buffer whose final bytes form a truncated incomplete multi-byte UTF-8 sequence could cause the native binding to read past the end of the allocated buffer while attempting to decode the final,...

CVE-2026-71498 node-re2: Out-of-bounds heap read in `replace`/`split` via a `Buffer` ending in a truncated multi-byte UTF-8 character → adjacent heap memory disclosed to JavaScript

node-re2 provides RE2 regular expression bindings for Node.js. Prior to version 1.26.1, passing a Buffer whose final bytes form a truncated incomplete multi-byte UTF-8 sequence could cause the native binding to read past the end of the allocated buffer while attempting to decode the final,...