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Critical RHSA-2026:7679 2 CVEs

Red Hat Security Advisory: perl-XML-Parser security update

Published Apr 13, 2026 · Updated Jun 30, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::appstream perl-XML-Parser 0:2.46-9.1.el9_7
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::appstream perl-XML-Parser-debuginfo 0:2.46-9.1.el9_7
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::appstream perl-XML-Parser-debugsource 0:2.46-9.1.el9_7

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Critical 9.8
    CVE-2006-10002

    XML::Parser versions through 2.45 for Perl could overflow the pre-allocated buffer size cause a heap corruption (double free or corruption) and crashes

    XML::Parser versions through 2.45 for Perl could overflow the pre-allocated buffer size cause a heap corruption (double free or corruption) and crashes. A :utf8 PerlIO layer, parse_stream() in Expat.xs could overflow the XML input buffer because Perl's read()…

    TODDR XML::Parser libxml-parser-perl libxml-parser-perl Debian Ubuntu
  • Critical 9.8
    CVE-2006-10003

    XML::Parser versions through 2.47 for Perl has an off-by-one heap buffer overflow in st_serial_stack

    XML::Parser versions through 2.47 for Perl has an off-by-one heap buffer overflow in st_serial_stack. In the case (stackptr == stacksize - 1), the stack will NOT be expanded. Then the new value will be written at location (++stackptr), which equals stacksize …

    TODDR XML::Parser libxml-parser-perl libxml-parser-perl Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2448999
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2449001
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_7679.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2006-10002
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-10002
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-10002
  • article
    https://github.com/cpan-authors/XML-Parser/commit/6b291f4d260fc124a6ec80382b87a918f372bc6b.patch
  • article
    https://github.com/cpan-authors/XML-Parser/issues/64
  • article
    https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19859
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2006-10003
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-10003
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-10003
  • article
    https://github.com/cpan-authors/XML-Parser/commit/3eb9cc95420fa0c3f76947c4708962546bf27cfd.patch
  • article
    https://github.com/cpan-authors/XML-Parser/issues/39
  • article
    https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19860