Bug 2547476 (CVE-2026-77214) - CVE-2026-77214 expat: expat: Information disclosure via heap buffer over-read in XML_ParseBuffer
Summary: CVE-2026-77214 expat: expat: Information disclosure via heap buffer over-read...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-77214
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-10-07 14:43 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-08 01:51 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-07 14:43:10 UTC
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.


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