RLSA-2026:39553

Synopsis

Important: perl-XML-LibXML security update

Description

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.

Affected products

Rocky Linux 9 aarch64 Rocky Linux 9 ppc64le Rocky Linux 9 s390x Rocky Linux 9 x86_64

Fixes

2468684

CVEs

CVE-2026-8177

Affected packages

Rocky Linux 9 aarch64 - AppStream

perl-XML-LibXML-1:2.0206-5.el9_8.1.aarch64.rpm perl-XML-LibXML-1:2.0206-5.el9_8.1.src.rpm perl-XML-LibXML-debuginfo-1:2.0206-5.el9_8.1.aarch64.rpm perl-XML-LibXML-debugsource-1:2.0206-5.el9_8.1.aarch64.rpm

Rocky Linux 9 ppc64le - AppStream

perl-XML-LibXML-1:2.0206-5.el9_8.1.ppc64le.rpm perl-XML-LibXML-1:2.0206-5.el9_8.1.src.rpm perl-XML-LibXML-debuginfo-1:2.0206-5.el9_8.1.ppc64le.rpm perl-XML-LibXML-debugsource-1:2.0206-5.el9_8.1.ppc64le.rpm

Rocky Linux 9 s390x - AppStream

perl-XML-LibXML-1:2.0206-5.el9_8.1.s390x.rpm perl-XML-LibXML-1:2.0206-5.el9_8.1.src.rpm perl-XML-LibXML-debuginfo-1:2.0206-5.el9_8.1.s390x.rpm perl-XML-LibXML-debugsource-1:2.0206-5.el9_8.1.s390x.rpm

Rocky Linux 9 x86_64 - AppStream

perl-XML-LibXML-1:2.0206-5.el9_8.1.src.rpm perl-XML-LibXML-1:2.0206-5.el9_8.1.x86_64.rpm perl-XML-LibXML-debuginfo-1:2.0206-5.el9_8.1.x86_64.rpm perl-XML-LibXML-debugsource-1:2.0206-5.el9_8.1.x86_64.rpm