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High ELSA-2026-88248 2 CVEs

Important: expat security update (Oracle Linux 10)

Published Oct 22, 2026 · Updated Oct 22, 2026

Summary

[2.7.3-63]
- CVE-2026-102633 expat: expat: Denial of Service via integer overflow in
expat_realloc

[2.7.3-62]
- CVE-2026-77214 expat: expat: Information disclosure via heap buffer over-
read in XML_ParseBuffer

[2.7.3-61]
- CVE-2026-66046 expat: Expat: Denial of Service via quadratic complexity
in attribute processing

[2.7.3-60]
- CVE-2026-93990 expat: Expat: XML Injection via Malformed UTF-16 Input

[2.7.3-59]
- Fix CVE-2026-56132: out-of-bound scaffolding index store in doProlog

[2.7.3-58]
- Fix CVE-2026-50219: forbid XML_ParserFree/Reset from handlers

[2.7.3-57]
- expat: backport CVE-2026-45186 fix (attribute collision check DoS)

[2.7.3-56]
- Rebase to 2.7.3 and add VCS tag

* Thu Jun 05 2025 psklenar@redhat.com <psklenar@redhat.com>
- https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHELMISC-13073

* Fri Mar 28 2025 Tomas Korbar <tkorbar@redhat.com>
- Fix behavior change caused by fix for CVE-2024-8176

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 10 expat 0:2.7.3-1.el10_2.7
Oracle Linux · 10 expat-devel 0:2.7.3-1.el10_2.7

Vulnerabilities 2

  • High 8.2

    libexpat Heap Buffer Over-read in xmlparse.c via XML_ParseBuffer

    libexpat before commit 13c5f63 contains a heap buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlparse.c. XML_ParseBuffer advances the parse buffer end with parser->m_bufferEnd += len using a caller-supplied length that is not validated against the allocated buffer size, …

  • Medium 5.9

    libexpat 2.7.2 through 2.8.5 Integer Overflow in expat_realloc

    libexpat versions 2.7.2 through 2.8.5 contain an integer overflow vulnerability in expat_realloc() function on 32-bit platforms when computing allocation sizes. Attackers supplying malicious XML to applications parsing with vulnerable libexpat can cause heap …