Debian/expat: medium 6.2
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.
Action: Upgrade expat to 2.8.3-1 or later.
Affected
| introduced | fixed | last affected |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 2.8.3-1 | - |
Fixed versions
| 2.8.3-1 |
Sources
- osv: DEBIAN-CVE-2026-72522#Debian:14/expat
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-72522
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