NPM: 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

NPM: 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 vulnerability discovered by ? in WordPress Npm re2 versions = 1.26.0...

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,...

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,...