CVE-2026-107169

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).

CVSS v3 6.2 MEDIUM

6.2^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.5 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-107169
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2547410

Configurations

No configuration.

History

07 Oct 2026, 15:17

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-10-07 15:17

Updated : 2026-10-10 03:17

NVD link : CVE-2026-107169

Mitre link : CVE-2026-107169

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-107169

JSON object : View

Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-476

NULL Pointer Dereference

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