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Red HatCVE-2026-16118

Red Hat xdgmime: heap buffer overflow

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CVE-2026-16118 · Published Jul 17, 2026 · updated Nov 6, 2026

High7.1
No fix yet
Red Hat advisory

A flaw was found in xdgmime. A heap-based buffer overflow can be triggered in _xdg_mime_magic_parse_magic_line() in the xdgmimemagic.c file on little-endian systems when an attacker-controlled MIME magic file in a user-writable XDG data location (e.g., in the $XDG_DATA_HOME/mime/magic path) is parsed by an application performing MIME type detection (e.g., via g_content_type_guess()). When performing byte-swap, incorrect pointer arithmetic on the write side causes an out-of-bounds write of 2 bytes, resulting in an application crash or memory corruption.

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
xdgmime
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
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