Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-16118

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A flaw was found in xdgmime. A heap-based buffer overflow can be triggered in xdgmimemagicparsemagicline in the xdgmimemagic.c file on little-endian systems whe...

CVE-2026-16118 Xdgmime: heap-based buffer overflow in _xdg_mime_magic_parse_magic_line() in xdgmimemagic.c

A flaw was found in xdgmime. A heap-based buffer overflow can be triggered in xdgmimemagicparsemagicline in the xdgmimemagic.c file on little-endian systems when an attacker-controlled MIME magic file in a user-writable XDG data location e.g., in the $XDGDATAHOME/mime/magic path is parsed by an...