CVE-2026-56407

NameCVE-2026-56407
Descriptionlibexpat before 2.8.2 has an integer overflow in doProlog that is related to storeEntityValue and entity textLen.
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)
ReferencesDLA-4765-1, DSA-6404-1
Debian Bugs1140557

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
expat (PTS)bookworm2.5.0-1+deb12u2vulnerable
bookworm (security)2.5.0-1+deb12u3fixed
trixie2.7.1-2vulnerable
trixie (security)2.8.3-1~deb13u1fixed
forky, sid2.8.4-1fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
expatsourcebookworm2.5.0-1+deb12u3DLA-4765-1
expatsourcetrixie2.8.2-1~deb13u1DSA-6404-1
expatsource(unstable)2.8.2-11140557

Notes

https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/1262
Fixed by: https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/commit/30c2fc179ce5d2b1b1bae30bbe0dfddeac894e13

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