RLSA-2026:23230

Synopsis

Important: expat security update

Description

Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents.

Security Fix(es):

* libexpat: denial of service via crafted XML input (CVE-2026-45186)

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.

Affected products

Rocky Linux 9 aarch64 Rocky Linux 9 ppc64le Rocky Linux 9 s390x Rocky Linux 9 x86_64

Fixes

2468575

CVEs

CVE-2026-45186

Affected packages

Rocky Linux 9 aarch64 - BaseOS

expat-0:2.5.0-6.el9_8.1.aarch64.rpm expat-0:2.5.0-6.el9_8.1.src.rpm expat-debuginfo-0:2.5.0-6.el9_8.1.aarch64.rpm expat-debugsource-0:2.5.0-6.el9_8.1.aarch64.rpm

Rocky Linux 9 x86_64 - BaseOS

expat-0:2.5.0-6.el9_8.1.i686.rpm expat-0:2.5.0-6.el9_8.1.src.rpm expat-0:2.5.0-6.el9_8.1.x86_64.rpm expat-debuginfo-0:2.5.0-6.el9_8.1.i686.rpm expat-debuginfo-0:2.5.0-6.el9_8.1.x86_64.rpm expat-debugsource-0:2.5.0-6.el9_8.1.i686.rpm expat-debugsource-0:2.5.0-6.el9_8.1.x86_64.rpm

Rocky Linux 9 ppc64le - BaseOS

expat-0:2.5.0-6.el9_8.1.ppc64le.rpm expat-0:2.5.0-6.el9_8.1.src.rpm expat-debuginfo-0:2.5.0-6.el9_8.1.ppc64le.rpm expat-debugsource-0:2.5.0-6.el9_8.1.ppc64le.rpm

Rocky Linux 9 s390x - BaseOS

expat-0:2.5.0-6.el9_8.1.s390x.rpm expat-0:2.5.0-6.el9_8.1.src.rpm expat-debuginfo-0:2.5.0-6.el9_8.1.s390x.rpm expat-debugsource-0:2.5.0-6.el9_8.1.s390x.rpm

Rocky Linux 9 aarch64 - AppStream

expat-devel-0:2.5.0-6.el9_8.1.aarch64.rpm

Rocky Linux 9 x86_64 - AppStream

expat-devel-0:2.5.0-6.el9_8.1.i686.rpm expat-devel-0:2.5.0-6.el9_8.1.x86_64.rpm

Rocky Linux 9 ppc64le - AppStream

expat-devel-0:2.5.0-6.el9_8.1.ppc64le.rpm

Rocky Linux 9 s390x - AppStream

expat-devel-0:2.5.0-6.el9_8.1.s390x.rpm