Mageia alert MGASA-2025-0240 (expat)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2025-0240: Updated expat packages fix security vulnerabilities
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Sat, 18 Oct 2025 18:50:39 +0200
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MGASA-2025-0240 - Updated expat packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 18 Oct 2025
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0240.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 9
CVE: CVE-2025-8176,
     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://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2025-8176
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2025-5...

SRPMS:
- 9/core/expat-2.7.3-1.mga9