Improper Update of Reference Count The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package expat-devel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-EXPATDEVEL-17240352
  • published9 Jun 2026
  • disclosed4 Jun 2026

Introduced: 4 Jun 2026

CVE-2026-50219  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-911  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream expat-devel package and not the expat-devel package as distributed by RHEL.

libexpat before 2.8.2 lacks handler call depth tracking for calls to XML_GetBuffer, XML_Parse, XML_ParseBuffer, XML_ParserFree, or XML_ParserReset from within handlers in cases of a policy violation. Thus, a use-after-free can occur,