🛡️ SUSE-SU-2026:20657-1 — libxml2 (CVE-2026-0990 +5 more)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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Description

Security update for libxslt, libxml2

This update for libxslt, libxml2 fixes the following issues:

libxml2:

  • CVE-2026-0990: call stack overflow leading to application crash

due to infinite recursion in xmlCatalogXMLResolveURI (bsc#1256807, bsc#1256811)

  • CVE-2026-0992: excessive resource consumption when processing XML

catalogs due to exponential behavior when handling <nextCatalog> elements (bsc#1256808, bsc#1256809, bsc#1256812)

  • CVE-2025-8732: infinite recursion in catalog parsing functions when processing malformed SGML catalog files (bsc#1247858, bsc#1247850)
  • CVE-2026-1757: memory leak in the xmllint interactive shell (bsc#1257593, bsc#1257594, bsc#1257595)
  • CVE-2025-10911: use-after-free with key data stored cross-RVT (bsc#1250553)
  • CVE-2026-0989: call stack exhaustion leading to application crash

due to RelaxNG parser not limiting the recursion depth when

resolving <include> directives (bsc#1256804, bsc#1256805, bsc#1256810)

libxslt:

  • CVE-2025-10911 will be fixed on libxml2 side instead [bsc#1250553]

Affected software

SUSE-SU-2026:20657-1 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • libxml2 (fixed in 2.11.6-slfo.1.1_8.1)
  • libxml2-python (fixed in 2.11.6-slfo.1.1_8.1)
  • libxslt (fixed in 1.1.38-slfo.1.1_6.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 6 March 2026 and last revised on 23 March 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-03-06
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-03-23
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
libxml2 2.11.6-slfo.1.1_8.1
libxml2-python 2.11.6-slfo.1.1_8.1
libxslt 1.1.38-slfo.1.1_6.1

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