CVE-2026-4224
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
8.0
Description
When an Expat parser with a registered ElementDeclHandler parses an inline document type definition containing a deeply nested content model a C stack overflow occurs.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ if you've already worked around this in production โ publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| rhel | 9 | fixed | |
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 0 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 0 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 0 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 0 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 0 |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19176
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19177
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-4224.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-4224
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2431367
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2444691
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2448168
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2448181
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2449649
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2457409
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2457932
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2458049
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2458239
- https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2026-19176.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:10950
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2395108
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2408891
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2418084
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2431366
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2431374
- https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2026-10950.html
- https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2026-19177.html
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.