expat: Fix of 3 CVEs
- CVE-2026-56131: fix use-after-free from calling XML_ResumeParser() inside a handler by adding handler call depth tracking and rejecting re-entrant calls - CVE-2026-56407: fix signed integer overflow of entity textLen in doProlog() for entity values larger than INT_MAX - CVE-2026-56408: fix integer overflow in copyString() when sizing the allocation for an over-long encoding name
- Products
- expat, expat-devel, expat-static
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.5.0-1.el8.tuxcare.els6
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-56131, CVE-2026-56407, CVE-2026-56408
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 11:15 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
- CVE-2026-56131: fix use-after-free from calling XML_ResumeParser() inside a handler by adding handler call depth tracking and rejecting re-entrant calls - CVE-2026-56407: fix signed integer overflow of entity textLen in doProlog() for entity values larger than INT_MAX - CVE-2026-56408: fix integer overflow in copyString() when sizing the allocation for an over-long encoding name
osv:CLSA-2026-1786009839
expat
Fixed versions: 2.5.0-1.el8.tuxcare.els6
expat-devel
Fixed versions: 2.5.0-1.el8.tuxcare.els6
expat-static
Fixed versions: 2.5.0-1.el8.tuxcare.els6
Complete source record
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