Mageia 9: Expat Critical Memory Allocation Risk MGASA-2025-0240
mageia
October 18, 2025
MGASA-2025-0240 - Updated expat packages fix security vulnerabilities
Summary
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-2025-8176
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-59375
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 9/core/expat-2.7.3-1.mga9
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Publication date: 18 Oct 2025
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0240.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2025-8176,
CVE-2025-59375
Topics Covered
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