Fix CVE(s): CVE-2026-66046, CVE-2026-93990
* SECURITY UPDATE: XML injection via malformed UTF-16 input: a high surrogate not followed by a low surrogate is accepted and consumes the following code unit, hiding markup characters from the parser (libexpat through 2.8.4) - debian/patches/CVE-2026-93990.patch: reject a UTF-16 high surrogate whose second code unit is not a low surrogate by defining IS_INVALID_CHAR (and isInvalid4 for XML_MIN_SIZE) for the little2_/big2_ encodings; also carries upstream's regression test into tests/runtests.c - CVE-2026-93990 * SECURITY UPDATE: Denial of service via quadratic complexity in storeAtts(), which scanned elementType->defaultAtts linearly to determine the CDATA status of every non-normalized attribute (libexpat through 2.8.3) - debian/patches/CVE-2026-66046.patch: store the index of the first default attribute declaration in the per-element hash table and use a hash lookup instead of the linear scan; includes upstream's follow-up for dtdCopy() so that external entity parsers do not read past the hash table entries - CVE-2026-66046
- Products
- expat, libexpat1, libexpat1-dev
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.2.6-2+deb10u7+tuxcare.els10
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-66046, CVE-2026-93990
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 11:24 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
* SECURITY UPDATE: XML injection via malformed UTF-16 input: a high surrogate not followed by a low surrogate is accepted and consumes the following code unit, hiding markup characters from the parser (libexpat through 2.8.4) - debian/patches/CVE-2026-93990.patch: reject a UTF-16 high surrogate whose second code unit is not a low surrogate by defining IS_INVALID_CHAR (and isInvalid4 for XML_MIN_SIZE) for the little2_/big2_ encodings; also carries upstream's regression test into tests/runtests.c - CVE-2026-93990 * SECURITY UPDATE: Denial of service via quadratic complexity in storeAtts(), which scanned elementType->defaultAtts linearly to determine the CDATA status of every non-normalized attribute (libexpat through 2.8.3) - debian/patches/CVE-2026-66046.patch: store the index of the first default attribute declaration in the per-element hash table and use a hash lookup instead of the linear scan; includes upstream's follow-up for dtdCopy() so that external entity parsers do not read past the hash table entries - CVE-2026-66046
osv:CLSA-2026-1791254668
expat
Fixed versions: 2.2.6-2+deb10u7+tuxcare.els10
libexpat1
Fixed versions: 2.2.6-2+deb10u7+tuxcare.els10
libexpat1-dev
Fixed versions: 2.2.6-2+deb10u7+tuxcare.els10
Complete source record
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"summary": "* SECURITY UPDATE: XML injection via malformed UTF-16 input: a high surrogate not followed by a low surrogate is accepted and consumes the following code unit, hiding markup characters from the parser (libexpat through 2.8.4) - debian/patches/CVE-2026-93990.patch: reject a UTF-16 high surrogate whose second code unit is not a low surrogate by defining IS_INVALID_CHAR (and isInvalid4 for XML_MIN_SIZE) for the little2_/big2_ encodings; also carries upstream's regression test into tests/runtests.c - CVE-2026-93990 * SECURITY UPDATE: Denial of service via quadratic complexity in storeAtts(), which scanned elementType->defaultAtts linearly to determine the CDATA status of every non-normalized attribute (libexpat through 2.8.3) - debian/patches/CVE-2026-66046.patch: store the index of the first default attribute declaration in the per-element hash table and use a hash lookup instead of the linear scan; includes upstream's follow-up for dtdCopy() so that external entity parsers do not read past the hash table entries - CVE-2026-66046",
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"provider": "osv",
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