CVE-2026-72522

Beschreibung

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.

Daten: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Wiedergegeben wie in der Quelle, auf Englisch.

Betroffene Produkte und Versionen

Referenzen und Patches

• https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/1296
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2053153
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/11/5
• https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-457936.html