DEBIAN-CVE-2026-77214

See a problem?
Please try reporting it to the source first.
Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-77214
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-77214.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-77214
Upstream
Published
2026-10-07T15:17:53Z
Modified
2026-10-22T09:00:06Z
Severity
  • 8.3 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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, so repeated XML_ParseBuffer calls move m_bufferEnd past the end of the heap allocation and subsequent parsing reads out of bounds. Reaching this path requires a parse buffer to already be present; otherwise XML_ParseBuffer returns XML_ERROR_NO_BUFFER. A buffer is present after a prior call to XML_GetBuffer, either directly (the common case) or indirectly through a prior XML_Parse call that allocates the buffer internally. The over-read discloses adjacent heap memory to the calling application, recovering heap pointers, libc function pointers, and code pointers sufficient to defeat ASLR and build further exploitation primitives.

References

Affected packages

Debian:12 / expat

Package

Name
expat
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/expat?arch=source&distro=bookworm

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.5.0-1+deb12u5

Affected versions

2.*
2.5.0-1
2.5.0-1+deb12u1
2.5.0-1+deb12u2
2.5.0-1+deb12u3
2.5.0-1+deb12u4

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency":  "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-77214.json"

Debian:13 / expat

Package

Name
expat
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/expat?arch=source&distro=trixie

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.9.0-1~deb13u1

Affected versions

2.*
2.7.1-2
2.7.2-1
2.7.3-1
2.7.3-2
2.7.4-1
2.7.5-1
2.8.0-1
2.8.0-2
2.8.1-1
2.8.2-1~deb13u1
2.8.2-1
2.8.3-1~deb13u1
2.8.3-1
2.8.4-1
2.8.4-2
2.8.5-1
2.8.5-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency":  "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-77214.json"

Debian:14 / expat

Package

Name
expat
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/expat?arch=source&distro=forky

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.9.0-1

Affected versions

2.*
2.7.1-2
2.7.2-1
2.7.3-1
2.7.3-2
2.7.4-1
2.7.5-1
2.8.0-1
2.8.0-2
2.8.1-1
2.8.2-1~deb13u1
2.8.2-1
2.8.3-1~deb13u1
2.8.3-1
2.8.4-1
2.8.4-2
2.8.5-1
2.8.5-2
2.9.0-1~deb13u1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency":  "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-77214.json"