Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-93990

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Expat before 2.8.5 fails to validate that a high surrogate in UTF-16 input is followed by a low surrogate, allowing malformed UTF-16 sequences to be accepted...

CVE-2026-93990 Expat before 2.8.5 Malformed UTF-16 Acceptance via Unchecked Surrogate

Expat before 2.8.5 fails to validate that a high surrogate in UTF-16 input is followed by a low surrogate, allowing malformed UTF-16 sequences to be accepted. Attackers can supply UTF-16 encoded XML containing lone high surrogates that consume the following code unit, causing Expat to pass unpair...