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JLSEC-2025-41 In libexpat before 2.2.8, crafted XML input could fool the parser into changing from DTD parsing to ...

🗓️ 14 Oct 2025 15:35:41Reported by GoogleType 
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Libexpat before 2.2.8 allows early switch from DTD to document parsing, causing heap buffer over-read.

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