Source: expat Version: 2.8.2-1 Severity: important Tags: security upstream Forwarded: https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/1296 X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], Debian Security Team <[email protected]>
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for expat. CVE-2026-72522[0]: | libexpat before 2.8.3 has an out-of-bounds read and resultant | infinite loop because low surrogates are treated the same as high | surrogates during Unicode processing in the *_toUtf16 functions. 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-2026-72522 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72522 [1] https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/1296 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore
