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).
Published: 2026-10-07
Score: 6.2 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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History

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 03:30:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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threat_severity

Moderate


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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
References
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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Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-10T02:25:14.133Z

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

Link: CVE-2026-107169

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-10-10T02:25:09.128Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

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

Modified: 2026-10-10T03:17:05.650

Link: CVE-2026-107169

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2026-10-07T11:49:20Z

Links: CVE-2026-107169 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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

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