[slackware-security] expat

New expat packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/expat-2.7.5-i586-3slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes a security issue: Fix an out-of-bounds read and the resulting infinite loo...

CVE-2026-72522

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...

CVE-2026-72522

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...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-72522

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - 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...