WID-SEC-W-2026-2906

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expat: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Denial of Service

view advisory published 2026-08-18

Ein Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in expat ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.

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IDseverity exploitable
CVE-2026-66046US——
Expat through 2.8.3 contains a denial of service vulnerability caused by quadratic algorithmic complexity in the storeAtts() function in xmlparse.c, where processing N specified at…
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