expat: Fix of CVE-2026-66046
- CVE-2026-66046: resolve quadratic runtime in storeAtts() by migrating the per-attribute isCdata lookup from a linear scan of elementType->defaultAtts to a hash table lookup in elementType->defaultAttsNames, and carry the index of an attribute's first declaration through dtdCopy() so that parsers created by XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate resolve attributes the same way
- Products
- expat, expat-devel, expat-static
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.5.0-1.el8.tuxcare.els8
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-66046
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 11:04 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
- CVE-2026-66046: resolve quadratic runtime in storeAtts() by migrating the per-attribute isCdata lookup from a linear scan of elementType->defaultAtts to a hash table lookup in elementType->defaultAttsNames, and carry the index of an attribute's first declaration through dtdCopy() so that parsers created by XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate resolve attributes the same way
osv:CLSA-2026-1790064092
expat
Fixed versions: 2.5.0-1.el8.tuxcare.els8
expat-devel
Fixed versions: 2.5.0-1.el8.tuxcare.els8
expat-static
Fixed versions: 2.5.0-1.el8.tuxcare.els8
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CLSA-2026-1790064092",
"method": "structured",
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"title": "expat: Fix of CVE-2026-66046",
"summary": "- CVE-2026-66046: resolve quadratic runtime in storeAtts() by migrating the per-attribute isCdata lookup from a linear scan of elementType->defaultAtts to a hash table lookup in elementType->defaultAttsNames, and carry the index of an attribute's first declaration through dtdCopy() so that parsers created by XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate resolve attributes the same way",
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"modified": "2026-10-26T09:31:44.162739457Z",
"provider": "osv",
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"https://errata.tuxcare.com/els_os/centos8.4els/CLSA-2026-1790064092.html",
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-66046"
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"security_relevant": true,
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 448302,
"published_at": "2026-09-22T08:01:44+00:00"
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