From: Richard Purdie <[email protected]>

v2.15.4: Sep 01 2026

- xmlregexp: Prevent out-of-bounds read in NXT macro
- fix: add missing overflow checks in dict.c, uri.c, and valid.c
- xmlregexp: Calc string length after null checking
- xpointer: Check overflow in xmlXPtrEvalXPtrPart
- xmlIO: Check for int overflow before calling writecallback
- fix(xinclude): propagate parseFlags in xmlXIncludeProcess and 
xmlXIncludeProcessTree

- Improve bound checks for xmlcatalog and xmllint arguments (out-of-bound)
- Fix memory leak in static Windows library (memory-leak)
- xmlreader: Copy DTD in xmlTextReaderDumpCopy
- parser: Fix double free in xmlIOParseDTD (double-free)
- parser: fix division-by-zero when maxAmpl is set to 0
- parser: Fix memory leak in xmlCtxtSetSaxHandler (memory-leak)
- catalog: Make sure to reset catalog resolve cache
- xmlAddChild: unlink node before free for text nodes (memory-leak)
- Normalize entity values in attr in xmlNodeGetContent
- Handle whitespace for date/time/duration types
- catalog: Fix NULL deref for nextCatalog without 'catalog' attribute 
(null-deref)

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 8875c7e8dbecc0700aa6db49b66b8d77a21938b1)
Signed-off-by: Hetvi Thakar <[email protected]>
---
 ...-installation-directories-in-libxml2.patch |  6 +-
 .../libxml/libxml2/CVE-2026-11979.patch       | 81 -------------------
 .../libxml/libxml2/install-tests.patch        |  2 +-
 .../{libxml2_2.15.3.bb => libxml2_2.15.4.bb}  |  3 +-
 4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 87 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/CVE-2026-11979.patch
 rename meta/recipes-core/libxml/{libxml2_2.15.3.bb => libxml2_2.15.4.bb} (96%)

diff --git 
a/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/0001-Revert-cmake-Fix-installation-directories-in-libxml2.patch
 
b/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/0001-Revert-cmake-Fix-installation-directories-in-libxml2.patch
index d19b284866d..a1d24b596e0 100644
--- 
a/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/0001-Revert-cmake-Fix-installation-directories-in-libxml2.patch
+++ 
b/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/0001-Revert-cmake-Fix-installation-directories-in-libxml2.patch
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-From 803e6f21d3d7ef6399f6ffe58cd28fa6dc7b94e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From aa31b72c260de3f15289db8d78c9674b0cf55f7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
 From: Peter Marko <[email protected]>
 Date: Mon, 26 May 2025 21:11:14 +0200
 Subject: [PATCH] Revert "cmake: Fix installation directories in
@@ -66,10 +66,10 @@ index ff6433f..b775cfe 100644
  set(LIBXML2_LIBRARIES ${LIBXML2_LIBRARY})
  set(LIBXML2_INCLUDE_DIRS ${LIBXML2_INCLUDE_DIR})
 diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
-index 2cfecb6..f78da31 100644
+index f8337ea..19fdbb0 100644
 --- a/meson.build
 +++ b/meson.build
-@@ -593,9 +593,6 @@ config_cmake = configuration_data()
+@@ -594,9 +594,6 @@ config_cmake = configuration_data()
  config_cmake.set('LIBXML_MAJOR_VERSION', v_maj)
  config_cmake.set('LIBXML_MINOR_VERSION', v_min)
  config_cmake.set('LIBXML_MICRO_VERSION', v_mic)
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/CVE-2026-11979.patch 
b/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/CVE-2026-11979.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index a14e566681e..00000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/CVE-2026-11979.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,81 +0,0 @@
-From dfad0660f7dab3b5f8317b703b16ad0b0d12697d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Daniel Garcia Moreno <[email protected]>
-Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 12:21:20 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] xmlcatalog: overflow check for large --shell commands
-
-Fix https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/work_items/1124
-
-CVE: CVE-2026-11979
-Signed-off-by: Anton Skorup <[email protected]>
-Upstream-Status: Backport 
[https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/c2e233fc1b341685fc99621b2768b503f777a72e]
----
- test/catalogs/test.sh | 11 +++++++++++
- xmlcatalog.c          | 16 ++++++++++++++++
- 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+)
-
-diff --git a/test/catalogs/test.sh b/test/catalogs/test.sh
-index 7e5eaa76..84e8b90a 100755
---- a/test/catalogs/test.sh
-+++ b/test/catalogs/test.sh
-@@ -10,6 +10,17 @@ fi
- 
- exitcode=0
- 
-+# Test xmlcatalog --shell command line
-+# Case 1: Really long argument (470 chars)
-+input=""; for i in {1..470}; do input="${input}A"; done
-+echo $input | $xmlcatalog --shell test/catalogs/dockbook.xml || exit 1
-+# Case 2: public + long argument
-+input="public "; for i in {1..470}; do input="${input}A"; done
-+echo $input | $xmlcatalog --shell test/catalogs/dockbook.xml || exit 1
-+# Case 3: public + lots of args
-+input="public "; for i in {1..80}; do input="${input} x"; done
-+echo $input | $xmlcatalog --shell test/catalogs/dockbook.xml || exit 1
-+
- for i in test/catalogs/*.script ; do
-     name=$(basename $i .script)
-     xml="./test/catalogs/$name.xml"
-diff --git a/xmlcatalog.c b/xmlcatalog.c
-index b400c7cb..5113e930 100644
---- a/xmlcatalog.c
-+++ b/xmlcatalog.c
-@@ -135,6 +135,12 @@ static void usershell(void) {
-              (*cur != '\n') && (*cur != '\r')) {
-           if (*cur == 0)
-               break;
-+            /* Do not read beyond the command array capacity */
-+            if (i >= (int)sizeof(command) - 2) {
-+                printf("Invalid command %s\n", cur);
-+                i = 0;
-+                break;
-+            }
-           command[i++] = *cur++;
-       }
-       command[i] = 0;
-@@ -152,6 +158,11 @@ static void usershell(void) {
-       while ((*cur != '\n') && (*cur != '\r') && (*cur != 0)) {
-           if (*cur == 0)
-               break;
-+            if (i >= (int)sizeof(arg) - 2) {
-+                printf("Invalid arg %s\n", arg);
-+                i = 0;
-+                break;
-+            }
-           arg[i++] = *cur++;
-       }
-       arg[i] = 0;
-@@ -164,6 +175,11 @@ static void usershell(void) {
-       cur = arg;
-       memset(argv, 0, sizeof(argv));
-       while (*cur != 0) {
-+            if (i >= (int)sizeof(argv) / (int)sizeof(char*)) {
-+                printf("Too much arguments\n");
-+                break;
-+            }
-+
-           while ((*cur == ' ') || (*cur == '\t')) cur++;
-           if (*cur == '\'') {
-               cur++;
--- 
-2.43.0
-
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/install-tests.patch 
b/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/install-tests.patch
index 996ade614e2..55559b7df3e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/install-tests.patch
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/install-tests.patch
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-From c6b547e06beb0f0ba99e30d036f055eaed9ec4dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From 11159757ae9ff484e02764b36cef970b3d0178c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
 From: Ross Burton <[email protected]>
 Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 14:15:36 +0800
 Subject: [PATCH] add yocto-specific install-ptest target
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2_2.15.3.bb 
b/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2_2.15.4.bb
similarity index 96%
rename from meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2_2.15.3.bb
rename to meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2_2.15.4.bb
index abf9889b3f3..a0605199513 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2_2.15.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2_2.15.4.bb
@@ -18,10 +18,9 @@ SRC_URI += 
"http://www.w3.org/XML/Test/xmlts20130923.tar;subdir=${BP};name=testt
            file://run-ptest \
            file://install-tests.patch \
            
file://0001-Revert-cmake-Fix-installation-directories-in-libxml2.patch \
-           file://CVE-2026-11979.patch \
            "
 
-SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = 
"78262a6e7ac170d6528ebfe2efccdf220191a5af6a6cd61ea4a9a9a5042c7a07"
+SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = 
"98087fd181d9070724f3fbc65c7377db03038eb92bd882374daff44940138821"
 SRC_URI[testtar.sha256sum] = 
"c6b2d42ee50b8b236e711a97d68e6c4b5c8d83e69a2be4722379f08702ea7273"
 
 CVE_STATUS[CVE-2025-6170] = "fixed-version: fixed in version 2.14.5"
-- 
2.35.6

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