Source: expat Version: 2.9.0-1 X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected] Severity: important Tags: security upstream
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for expat. CVE-2026-117610[0]: | libexpat through 2.9.0 contains a NULL pointer dereference | vulnerability in externalEntityInitProcessor2() in lib/xmlparse.c | that mishandles the XML_TOK_NONE token from empty input. Attackers | who control stream chunking can force an empty non-final first parse | on an external entity subparser, causing a later parse to crash the | application. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-117610 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-117610 [1] https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/1444 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore
