SB20260819107 - openEuler update for expat
Published: August 19, 2026
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Protection mechanism failure (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-50219)
CWE-ID: CWE-693 - Protection Mechanism Failure
CVSSv4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause memory corruption.
The vulnerability exists due to missing control flow integrity checks in XML_GetBuffer, XML_Parse, XML_ParseBuffer, XML_ParserFree, and XML_ParserReset when these functions are called reentrantly from bindings or callbacks. A remote attacker can trigger unsafe parser API calls to cause memory corruption.
The issue is described as relevant to language bindings.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.