RHSA-2026:14858MediumCVSS 6.2

Red Hat Security Advisory: libxml2 security update

Published
May 7, 2026
Last Modified
August 26, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2025-9714 →

📋 Description

CVE-2025-9714 — libxslt: libxml2: Inifinite recursion at exsltDynMapFunction function in libexslt/dynamic.c

🎯 Affected products49

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.8.8)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream TUS (v.8.8)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS TUS (v.8.8)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.13.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.13.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS TUS (v.8.8)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.13.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.13.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.13.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS TUS (v.8.8)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.13.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.13.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS TUS (v.8.8)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.13.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.8.8)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.13.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream TUS (v.8.8)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.13.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.13.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS TUS (v.8.8)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.13.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.8.8)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.13.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.13.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.8.8)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.13.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream TUS (v.8.8)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.13.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.13.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS TUS (v.8.8)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.13.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.8.8)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.13.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream TUS (v.8.8)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.13.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.13.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS TUS (v.8.8)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.13.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.8.8)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.13.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.13.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.8.8)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.13.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream TUS (v.8.8)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.13.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: The impact of this flaw may be reduced by setting strict resource limits to the stack size of processes at the operational system level. This can be achieved either through the 'ulimit' shell built-in or the 'limits.conf' file.

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