Advisories » MGASA-2025-0240

Updated expat packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 18 Oct 2025
Modification date: 25 Mar 2026
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 9
CVE: CVE-2024-8176 , CVE-2025-59375

Description

Improper restriction of xml entity expansion depth in libexpat.
(CVE-2024-8176) This is an extension of the fix published in
MGASA-2025-0109 that was determined by upstream to be incomplete.
Libexpat in Expat before 2.7.2 allows attackers to trigger large dynamic
memory allocations via a small document that is submitted for parsing.
(CVE-2025-59375)
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34640
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34111
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/24/11
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0109.html
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8176
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-59375

SRPMS

9/core

• expat-2.7.3-1.mga9