Libexpat Project: community verdicts

xmlwf in libexpat before 2.8.2 has an integer overflow in endDoctypeDecl via NOTATION declarations.

xmlwf in libexpat before 2.8.2 has an integer overflow in resolveSystemId.

libexpat before 2.8.2 does not consider XML_TOK_DATA_CHARS in doCdataSection and thus lacks handler call depth tracking for various calls from within handlers in cases of a policy violation. Thus, a use-after-free can occur. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2026-50219.

libexpat before 2.8.2 has an integer overflow in addBinding.

libexpat before 2.8.2 has an integer overflow in doProlog that is related to storeEntityValue and entity textLen.

libexpat before 2.8.2 has an integer overflow in XML_ParseBuffer because it lacked a check that was present in XML_Parse.

libexpat before 2.8.2 has an integer overflow in storeAtts.

libexpat before 2.8.2 has an integer overflow in getAttributeId.

libexpat before 2.8.2 has an integer overflow in copyString.

libexpat before 2.8.2 lacks handler call depth tracking for calls to XML_ResumeParser from within handlers in cases of a policy violation. Thus, a use-after-free can occur (similar to the CVE-2026-50219 situation).

xmlwf in libexpat before 2.8.2 has an integer overflow for the output filename when -d outputDir is used.

In libexpat before 2.8.2, there is a heap-based buffer overflow in doProlog in xmlparse.c because scaffold backing array reallocation is mishandled when there is data-structure sharing across parsers.