Fix CVE(s): CVE-2026-72522, CVE-2026-76957
* SECURITY UPDATE: - debian/patches/CVE-2026-72522.patch: stop the UTF-16 to UTF-16 converters mis-classifying a trailing low surrogate as a high surrogate, which truncated input and lost a code unit, by masking with 0xFC instead of 0xF8 in expat/lib/xmltok.c - debian/patches/CVE-2026-76957.patch: protect the application-supplied XML_Encoding convert and release callbacks from parser reentry by routing them through expat's handler call-depth tracking in expat/lib/xmlparse.c, closing a use-after-free - CVE-2026-72522 - CVE-2026-76957
- Products
- expat, libexpat1, libexpat1-dev
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.2.9-1ubuntu0.8+tuxcare.els7
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-72522, CVE-2026-76957
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 10:59 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Fix CVE(s): CVE-2026-72522, CVE-2026-76957
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 8 Sept 2026, 12:19 UTC
* SECURITY UPDATE: - debian/patches/CVE-2026-72522.patch: stop the UTF-16 to UTF-16 converters mis-classifying a trailing low surrogate as a high surrogate, which truncated input and lost a code unit, by masking with 0xFC instead of 0xF8 in expat/lib/xmltok.c - debian/patches/CVE-2026-76957.patch: protect the application-supplied XML_Encoding convert and release callbacks from parser reentry by routing them through expat's handler call-depth tracking in expat/lib/xmlparse.c, closing a use-after-free - CVE-2026-72522 - CVE-2026-76957
osv:CLSA-2026-1788869942
expat
Fixed versions: 2.2.9-1ubuntu0.8+tuxcare.els7
libexpat1
Fixed versions: 2.2.9-1ubuntu0.8+tuxcare.els7
libexpat1-dev
Fixed versions: 2.2.9-1ubuntu0.8+tuxcare.els7
Complete source record
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"summary": "* SECURITY UPDATE: - debian/patches/CVE-2026-72522.patch: stop the UTF-16 to UTF-16 converters mis-classifying a trailing low surrogate as a high surrogate, which truncated input and lost a code unit, by masking with 0xFC instead of 0xF8 in expat/lib/xmltok.c - debian/patches/CVE-2026-76957.patch: protect the application-supplied XML_Encoding convert and release callbacks from parser reentry by routing them through expat's handler call-depth tracking in expat/lib/xmlparse.c, closing a use-after-free - CVE-2026-72522 - CVE-2026-76957",
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"modified": "2026-10-26T09:31:40.145936490Z",
"provider": "osv",
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"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72522",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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