Advisories » MGASA-2026-0204

Updated expat packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 12 Jun 2026
Modification date: 12 Jun 2026
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 9
CVE: CVE-2026-45186

Description

CVE-2026-45186 the computational complexity of attribute name collision
checks allows a denial of service via moderately sized crafted XML
input.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35522
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/11/16
• https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/expat-2-8-1-released/
• https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_8_1/expat/Changes
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45186

SRPMS

9/core

• expat-2.7.5-1.1.mga9