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libexpat before 2.8.3 has an out-of-bounds read and resultant infinite loop because low surrogates are treated the same as high surrogates during Unicode processing in the *_toUtf16 functions.

Medium CVSS 6.2
CVECVE-2026-72522
First seen2026-08-10 04:30 UTC
Disclosed2026-08-10 04:16 UTC
Last updated2026-08-10 04:30 UTC
Channel statusauto

Summary

libexpat before 2.8.3 has an out-of-bounds read and resultant infinite loop because low surrogates are treated the same as high surrogates during Unicode processing in the *_toUtf16 functions.

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Sources

  • NVD DATABASE

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Timeline

  1. nvd_ingest NVD