Advisories » MGASA-2025-0109

Updated expat packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 22 Mar 2025
Modification date: 17 Oct 2025
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 9
CVE: CVE-2024-8176

Description

Improper restriction of xml entity expansion depth in libexpat.
(CVE-2024-8176)
NOTE: upstream deemed this fix incomplete after it was initially pushed. The
complete fix was submitted along with the fix for CVE-2025-59375.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34111
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34640
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/03/14/5
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/24/11
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-8176

SRPMS

9/core

• expat-2.7.0-1.mga9