🛡️ OESA-2026-2974 — expat

🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
5.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

expat security update

expat is a stream-oriented XML parser library written in C. expat excels with files too large to fit RAM, and where performance and flexibility are crucial.

Security Fix(es):

libexpat before 2.8.2 has an integer overflow in storeAtts.(CVE-2026-56403)

libexpat before 2.8.2 has an integer overflow in addBinding.(CVE-2026-56404)

libexpat before 2.8.2 has an integer overflow in getAttributeId.(CVE-2026-56405)

libexpat before 2.8.2 has an integer overflow in XML_ParseBuffer because it lacked a check that was present in XML_Parse.(CVE-2026-56406)

libexpat before 2.8.2 has an integer overflow in doProlog that is related to storeEntityValue and entity textLen.(CVE-2026-56407)

libexpat before 2.8.2 has an integer overflow in copyString.(CVE-2026-56408)

xmlwf in libexpat before 2.8.2 has an integer overflow for the output filename when -d outputDir is used.(CVE-2026-56409)

xmlwf in libexpat before 2.8.2 has an integer overflow in resolveSystemId.(CVE-2026-56410)

xmlwf in libexpat before 2.8.2 has an integer overflow in endDoctypeDecl via NOTATION declarations.(CVE-2026-56411)

libexpat before 2.8.2 does not consider XML_TOK_DATA_CHARS in doCdataSection and thus lacks handler call depth tracking for various calls from within handlers in cases of a policy violation. Thus, a use-after-free can occur. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2026-50219.(CVE-2026-56412)

Affected software

OESA-2026-2974 is recorded against 1 package.

  • expat (fixed in 2.4.1-27.oe2203sp4)

Timeline and source

Published on 9 July 2026 and last revised on 14 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

www.openeuler.org (Advisory)
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Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-07-09
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-14
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
expat — 2.4.1-27.oe2203sp4

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