[El-errata] ELSA-2026-72663 Important: Oracle Linux 9 expat security update

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Thu Oct 1 14:26:17 UTC 2026


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2026-72663

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2026-72663.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 9 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
expat-2.5.0-6.el9_8.5.i686.rpm
expat-2.5.0-6.el9_8.5.x86_64.rpm
expat-devel-2.5.0-6.el9_8.5.i686.rpm
expat-devel-2.5.0-6.el9_8.5.x86_64.rpm

aarch64:
expat-2.5.0-6.el9_8.5.aarch64.rpm
expat-devel-2.5.0-6.el9_8.5.aarch64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol9/SRPMS-updates/expat-2.5.0-6.el9_8.5.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2026-66046
CVE-2026-93990




Description of changes:

[2.5.0-6.5]
- Fix CVE-2026-66046: dtdCopy out-of-bounds access via isCdata hash lookup
- Resolves: RHEL-260179

[2.5.0-6.4]
- CVE-2026-93990 expat: Expat: XML Injection via Malformed UTF-16 Input
- Resolves: RHEL-269002




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