Red Hat Security AdvisoryRHSA-2026:65568
Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs Security Update
Released 2026-09-08 · Red Hat rating Important · View on Red Hat →
Fixed in
- Red Hat Hardened Images expat-2.8.4-0.1.hum1@aarch64, expat-2.8.4-0.1.hum1@src, expat-2.8.4-0.1.hum1@x86_64 +4
Fixes 5 records
Priority MEDIUM 45
Expat through 2.8.3 contains a denial of service vulnerability caused by quadratic algorithmic complexity in the storeAtts() function in xmlparse.c, where processing N specified attributes with non-normalized values trig…
CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7· Network · No auth · No interaction · EPSS 0.00742 · Published 2026-08-18 · Partial fix CWE-407
Priority MEDIUM 44
Expat through 2.8.3 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability that allows attackers to trigger memory corruption by processing XML with external entity parsers created via XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate.
CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7· Network · No auth · No interaction · EPSS 0.00353 · Published 2026-08-20 · Partial fix CWE-125
Priority LOW 39
In libexpat 2.8.2 and 2.8.3 before 2.8.4, misinterpretation of getentropy's return code leads to insufficient entropy, which results in being vulnerable to hash flooding attacks, causing a denial of service via crafted X…
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5· Network · No auth · No interaction · EPSS 0.00287 · Published 2026-08-20 · Fixed in 2.8.4 CWE-394
Priority LOW 33
libexpat before 2.8.4 lacks handler call depth tracking with custom encoding callbacks.
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8· Local · Low privileges · No interaction · EPSS 0.00107 · Published 2026-08-20 · Partial fix · 2.8.4 CWE-416
Priority LOW 31
xmlwf in libexpat before 2.8.2 has an integer overflow in endDoctypeDecl via NOTATION declarations.
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.9· Local · No auth · No interaction · EPSS 0.00129 · Published 2026-06-21 · Partial fix · 2.8.2 CWE-190