RLSA-2026:72448

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Source

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2026:72448

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2026:72448.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/RLSA-2026:72448

Upstream

CVE (2)

Published

2026-09-29T06:01:09Z

Modified

2026-09-29T06:30:02Z

Severity

7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

Important: expat security update

Details

Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents.

Security Fix(es):

expat: Expat: Denial of Service via quadratic complexity in attribute processing (CVE-2026-66046)
expat: Expat: XML Injection via Malformed UTF-16 Input (CVE-2026-93990)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Database specific

{
    "license":  "CC-BY-4.0",
    "license_url":  "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "source_advisory":  "RHSA-2026:72448"
}

References

Credits

- Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
- Red Hat

Affected packages

Rocky Linux:8 / expat

Package

Name: expat
Purl: pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/expat?distro=rocky-linux-8&epoch=0

Affected ranges

Type

ECOSYSTEM

Events

Introduced

Fixed

0:2.5.0-4.el8_10

Database specific

Show details

{
    "yum_repository":  "BaseOS"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2026:72448.json"