CVE-2026-107168

NameCVE-2026-107168
DescriptionA flaw was found in m17n-lib. By providing crafted input containing an invalid UTF-8 character sequence, an attacker can cause the text parsing function to enter an infinite loop. This issue leads to sustained high CPU utilization, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) for the affected application.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
m17n-lib (PTS)bookworm1.8.0-6vulnerable
trixie1.8.5-1vulnerable
forky, sid1.8.6-1vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
m17n-libsource(unstable)(unfixed)

Notes

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2547409

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