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From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: libxml-libxml-perl: CVE-2026-8177
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Source: libxml-libxml-perl
Version: 2.0207+dfsg+really+2.0134-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/cpan-authors/XML-LibXML/issues/146
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil@debian.org, Debian Security Team <team@security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for libxml-libxml-perl.

CVE-2026-8177[0]:
| XML::LibXML versions through 2.0210 for Perl read out-of-bounds heap
| memory when parsing XML node names containing truncated UTF-8 byte
| sequences.  A node name ending in the middle of a multi byte UTF-8
| sequence causes the parser to read past the end of the input string
| into adjacent heap memory.  Any Perl process that passes attacker
| controlled strings to XML::LibXML's DOM node-name methods can reach
| this path on the default API. The likely consequence is a crash,
| causing denial of service.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-8177
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-8177
[1] https://github.com/cpan-authors/XML-LibXML/issues/146
[2] https://lists.security.metacpan.org/cve-announce/msg/39920366/
[3] https://github.com/cpan-authors/XML-LibXML/pull/149

Regards,
Salvatore
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