SB2026081997 - Fedora 44 update for mingw-expat
Published: August 19, 2026
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 vulnerabilities.
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.
2) Protection mechanism failure (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-56412)
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 doCdataSection when handling XML_TOK_DATA_CHARS callbacks. A remote attacker can trigger unsafe handler calls to cause memory corruption.
This issue is described as a hole in the fix for CVE-2026-50219.
3) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-56132)
CWE-ID: CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds write
CVSSv4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause memory corruption.
The vulnerability exists due to an out-of-bounds write in doProlog when processing scaffolding index data. A remote attacker can supply crafted XML input to cause memory corruption.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.