Bug 2513993 - CVE-2026-72522 mingw-expat: libexpat: Denial of Service due to incorrect Unicode surrogate handling [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-72522 mingw-expat: libexpat: Denial of Service due to incorrect Unic...
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Status: ON_QA
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mingw-expat
Version: 45
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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medium
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Assignee: Richard W.M. Jones
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2026-72522
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Reported: 2026-08-11 14:46 UTC by Srikanth Balasubramanian
Modified: 2026-08-26 02:20 UTC (History)
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Description Srikanth Balasubramanian 2026-08-11 14:46:10 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

libexpat before 2.8.3 has an out-of-bounds read and resultant infinite loop because low surrogates are treated the same as high surrogates during Unicode processing in the *_toUtf16 functions.

Comment 1 Aoife Moloney 2026-08-17 15:52:10 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 45 development cycle.
Changing version to 45.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2026-08-25 20:59:32 UTC
FEDORA-2026-43f21f29dc (mingw-expat-2.8.3-1.fc43) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 43.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-43f21f29dc

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2026-08-25 20:59:32 UTC
FEDORA-2026-f5e2a6b9b5 (mingw-expat-2.8.3-1.fc44) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 44.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-f5e2a6b9b5

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2026-08-25 20:59:33 UTC
FEDORA-2026-6d1e651eb5 (mingw-expat-2.8.3-1.fc45) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 45.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-6d1e651eb5

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2026-08-26 01:42:14 UTC
FEDORA-2026-43f21f29dc has been pushed to the Fedora 43 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-43f21f29dc`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-43f21f29dc

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2026-08-26 02:02:45 UTC
FEDORA-2026-f5e2a6b9b5 has been pushed to the Fedora 44 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-f5e2a6b9b5`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-f5e2a6b9b5

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2026-08-26 02:20:50 UTC
FEDORA-2026-6d1e651eb5 has been pushed to the Fedora 45 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-6d1e651eb5`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-6d1e651eb5

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.


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