Bug 2513021 (CVE-2026-72522)
| Summary: | CVE-2026-72522 expat: libexpat: Denial of Service due to incorrect Unicode surrogate handling | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | gotiwari, jhorak, mvyas, rhel-process-autobot, watson-tool-maintainers |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Doc Text: |
A flaw in libexpat's _toUtf16 functions mishandles Unicode low surrogates by treating them as high surrogates. An attacker can exploit the resulting out-of-bounds read to trigger an infinite loop, causing a denial of service (DoS).
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 2513993 | ||
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Description
OSIDB Bzimport
2026-08-10 03:51:13 UTC
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