ALAS2027-2026-005


Amazon Linux 2027 Preview Security Advisory: ALAS2027-2026-005
Advisory Release Date: 2026-09-18 09:00 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2026-09-18 09:00 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

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. (CVE-2026-56132)


Affected Packages:

expat


Issue Correction:
Run yum update expat to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    expat-static-2.8.1-1.amzn2027.aarch64
    expat-devel-2.8.1-1.amzn2027.aarch64
    expat-debugsource-2.8.1-1.amzn2027.aarch64
    expat-debuginfo-2.8.1-1.amzn2027.aarch64
    expat-2.8.1-1.amzn2027.aarch64

src:
    expat-2.8.1-1.amzn2027.src

x86_64:
    expat-debugsource-2.8.1-1.amzn2027.x86_64
    expat-debuginfo-2.8.1-1.amzn2027.x86_64
    expat-devel-2.8.1-1.amzn2027.x86_64
    expat-2.8.1-1.amzn2027.x86_64
    expat-static-2.8.1-1.amzn2027.x86_64