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Fix CVE(s): CVE-2026-72522, CVE-2026-76957

Type: advisorySources: OSV

* 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 source

Published 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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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CLSA-2026-1788869942",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "Fix CVE(s): CVE-2026-72522, CVE-2026-76957",
    "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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        ],
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-26T09:31:40.145936490Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "upstream": [
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        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72522",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 448021,
  "published_at": "2026-09-08T12:19:14+00:00"
}