On Mon Aug 24, 2026 at 5:15 PM CEST, Jakub Szczudlo (Nokia) via 
lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> Expat does not track whether its public parser APIs are called from inside
> a user handler. Re-entering the parser through XML_GetBuffer(),
> XML_Parse(), XML_ParseBuffer(), XML_ParserFree() or XML_ParserReset() can
> therefore result in use-after-free and memory corruption.
> The 32 upstream commits are divided as follows:
> * 01 introduces the handler call depth counter and the helper functions
>   used to enter, leave and detect handler execution.
> * 02-04 are preparation patches. They extract handler calls from compound
>   expressions so that depth tracking can be placed before and after each
>   invocation without changing handler return-value semantics.
> * 05-26 instrument the individual handler types. Each patch covers a
>   distinct callback path; omitting one would leave a route around the
>   API guards.
> * 27-31 add the actual policy enforcement to XML_GetBuffer(), XML_Parse(),
>   XML_ParseBuffer(), XML_ParserFree() and XML_ParserReset().
> * 32 adds regression coverage for all five rejected calls.
> Documentation and Changes-file commits from the upstream
> series are dropped because they do not affect the fix or its test
> coverage.
> An explicit XML_Parser cast is added to the regression-test handler
> because handlers.c is also included by handlers_cxx.cpp and compiled as
> C++ in the OE build.
> Upstream pull request:
> https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/1246
>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Szczudlo <[email protected]>
> ---

Hi Jakub,

I suspect this is targeting the wrynose branch. In this case, it is
missing the [wrynose] tag.

https://docs.yoctoproject.org/dev/contributor-guide/submit-changes.html#submitting-changes-to-stable-release-branches

Thanks,
Mathieu

-- 
Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

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