RLSA-2026:39878

Source
https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2026:39878
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2026:39878.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/RLSA-2026:39878
Upstream
Published
2026-07-16T00:01:09.519027Z
Modified
2026-07-16T00:30:05.049120346Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Important: perl-XML-LibXML security update
Details

This module implements a Perl interface to the GNOME libxml2 library which provides interfaces for parsing and manipulating XML files. This module allows Perl programmers to make use of the highly capable validating XML parser and the high performance DOM implementation.

Security Fix(es):

  • perl-XML-LibXML: XML::LibXML: Denial of Service via truncated UTF-8 in XML node names (CVE-2026-8177)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

References
Credits
    • Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
    • Red Hat

Affected packages

Rocky Linux:8 / perl-XML-LibXML

Package

Name
perl-XML-LibXML
Purl
pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/perl-XML-LibXML?distro=rocky-linux-8&epoch=1

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:2.0132-3.el8_10
Database specific
{
    "yum_repository": "AppStream"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2026:39878.json"