CVE-2026-16118 | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 MIME Type Detection xdgmimemagic.c xdg_mime_magic_parse_magic_line out-of-bounds write

A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Enterprise Linux 7, Enterprise Linux 8 and Enterprise Linux 9. It has been declared as problematic. This impacts the function xdg_mime_magic_parse_magic_line of the file xdgmimemagic.c of the component MIME Type Detection. The manipulation results in out-of-bounds write.

This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-16118. The attack needs to be approached locally. There is no available exploit.