RHSA-2026:88247 — Security Advisory

An update for expat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.8 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents.

Security Fix(es):

• expat: expat: Denial of Service via integer overflow in expat_realloc (CVE-2026-102633)

• expat: expat: Information disclosure via heap buffer over-read in XML_ParseBuffer (CVE-2026-77214)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.