Medium ELSA-2025-3531 1 CVE

Moderate: expat security update (Oracle Linux 9)

Published Apr 2, 2025 · Updated Apr 2, 2025

Ecosystem: Oracle Linux

Summary

[2.5.0-3.3]
- Improve fix for CVE-2024-8176
- Resolves: RHEL-57488

[2.5.0-3.2]
- Fix CVE-2024-8176
- Resolves: RHEL-57488

Fixed packages 2

Release	Package	Fixed in
Oracle Linux · 9	expat	0:2.5.0-3.el9_5.3
Oracle Linux · 9	expat-devel	0:2.5.0-3.el9_5.3

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.5

CVE-2024-8176 Public exploit

Libexpat: expat: improper restriction of xml entity expansion depth in libexpat

A stack overflow vulnerability exists in the libexpat library due to the way it handles recursive entity expansion in XML documents. When parsing an XML document with deeply nested entity references, libexpat can be forced to recurse indefinitely, exhausting …

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