Source: expat Version: 2.8.0-1 Severity: important Tags: security upstream Forwarded: https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/1216 X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], Debian Security Team <[email protected]>
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for expat. CVE-2026-45186[0]: | In libexpat before 2.8.1, the computational complexity of attribute | name collision checks allows a denial of service via moderately | sized crafted XML input. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-45186 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45186 [1] https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/1216 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore
