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THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-1757 (MEDIUM 6.2) — A flaw was identified in the interactive shell of the xmllint utility, part of the libxml2 project, where memory allocated for user input is not properly released under certain conditions. When a user submits input consisting only of whitespace, the program skips command executio

[NVD] CVE-2026-1757 (MEDIUM 6.2) — A flaw was identified in the interactive shell of the xmllint utility, part of the libxml2 project, where memory allocated for user input is not properly released under certain conditions. When a user submits input consisting only of whitespace, the program skips command executio

lownvdPublished 2026-02-02

CVE-2026-1757 CVSS: 6.2 MEDIUM Published: 2026-02-02T13:15:58.580

A flaw was identified in the interactive shell of the xmllint utility, part of the libxml2 project, where memory allocated for user input is not properly released under certain conditions. When a user submits input consisting only of whitespace, the program skips command execution but fails to free the allocated buffer. Repeating t

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CVE-2026-1757cve

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-1757