Source: expat Version: 2.9.0-1 X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected] Severity: important Tags: security upstream Forwarded: https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/1450
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for expat. CVE-2026-118370[0]: | libexpat through 2.9.0 contains a signed integer overflow | vulnerability in storeAtts() in lib/xmlparse.c that allows attackers | to trigger out-of-bounds writes via oversized attribute counts. | Attackers can supply a multi-gigabyte document with a start tag | carrying over 2^30 attributes to overflow attIndex and nPrefixes, | crashing applications or corrupting heap memory. 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-2026-118370 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-118370 [1] https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/1450 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore
