SUSE 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...

[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...

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.

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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...

AZL-94698 CVE-2026-72522 affecting package expat for versions less than 2.8.3-1

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...

UBUNTU-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...

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...

EUVD-2026-54990

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...

PT-2026-69331

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libexpat versions prior to 2.8.3 Description An out-of-bounds read and a resulting infinite loop occur during Unicode processing. This happens because low surrogates are treated identically to high surrogates within the toUtf16 functions...

Incorrect handling of invalid surrogate pair characters

ImpactWhat kind of vulnerability is it? Who is impacted?Anyone parsing JSON from an untrusted source is vulnerable.JSON strings that contain escaped surrogate characters not part of a proper surrogate pair were decoded incorrectly. Besides corrupting strings, this allowed for potential key...