Fix CVE(s): CVE-2026-41080
* SECURITY UPDATE: hash flooding via crafted XML caused by insufficient entropy in the hash secret salt - debian/patches/CVE-2026-41080.patch: migrate hash salt storage to a full 128-bit struct sipkey and extract 16 bytes of entropy (instead of 4 to 8) in expat/lib/xmlparse.c; add XML_SetHashSalt16Bytes() API in expat/lib/expat.h for supplying a full 128-bit salt - debian/libexpat1.symbols: add new XML_SetHashSalt16Bytes symbol - CVE-2026-41080
- Products
- expat, libexpat1, libexpat1-dev
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.2.9-1ubuntu0.8+tuxcare.els5
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-41080
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 11:43 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
* SECURITY UPDATE: hash flooding via crafted XML caused by insufficient entropy in the hash secret salt - debian/patches/CVE-2026-41080.patch: migrate hash salt storage to a full 128-bit struct sipkey and extract 16 bytes of entropy (instead of 4 to 8) in expat/lib/xmlparse.c; add XML_SetHashSalt16Bytes() API in expat/lib/expat.h for supplying a full 128-bit salt - debian/libexpat1.symbols: add new XML_SetHashSalt16Bytes symbol - CVE-2026-41080
osv:CLSA-2026-1780663178
expat
Fixed versions: 2.2.9-1ubuntu0.8+tuxcare.els5
libexpat1
Fixed versions: 2.2.9-1ubuntu0.8+tuxcare.els5
libexpat1-dev
Fixed versions: 2.2.9-1ubuntu0.8+tuxcare.els5
Complete source record
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