A flaw was found in m17n-lib. An attacker could provide specially crafted or truncated UTF-8 input to trigger an unhandled null pointer dereference during text processing. This issue causes the application to crash unexpectedly, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).

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Description A flaw was found in m17n-lib. An attacker could provide specially crafted or truncated UTF-8 input to trigger an unhandled null pointer dereference during text processing. This issue causes the application to crash unexpectedly, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).
Title M17n-lib: null-pointer write in read_mtext_element() on malformed utf-8
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
Weaknesses CWE-476
CPEs cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-07T14:34:50.043Z

Reserved: 2026-10-07T11:29:09.081Z

Link: CVE-2026-107169

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Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-10-07T15:17:19.023

Modified: 2026-10-07T15:57:20.793

Link: CVE-2026-107169

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Updated: 2026-10-07T15:30:17Z

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