Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2025-0109)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Updated expat packages fix security vulnerability

Improper restriction of xml entity expansion depth in libexpat. CVE-2024-8176 NOTE: upstream deemed this fix incomplete after it was initially pushed. The complete fix was submitted along with the fix for CVE-2025-59375...

MGASA-2025-0109 Updated expat packages fix security vulnerability

Improper restriction of xml entity expansion depth in libexpat. CVE-2024-8176 NOTE: upstream deemed this fix incomplete after it was initially pushed. The complete fix was submitted along with the fix for CVE-2025-59375...

Azure Linux 3.0 Security Update: expat / python3 (CVE-2024-45491)

The version of expat / python3 installed on the remote Azure Linux 3.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2024-45491 advisory. - An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. dtdCopy in xmlparse.c can have an integer overflo...

Azure Linux 3.0 Security Update: expat / python3 (CVE-2024-45490)

The version of expat / python3 installed on the remote Azure Linux 3.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2024-45490 advisory. - An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. xmlparse.c does not reject a negative length for...

Azure Linux 3.0 Security Update: expat / python3 (CVE-2024-45492)

The version of expat / python3 installed on the remote Azure Linux 3.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2024-45492 advisory. - An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. nextScaffoldPart in xmlparse.c can have an intege...

[SECURITY] Fedora 42 Update: expat-2.7.0-1.fc42

This is expat, the C library for parsing XML, written by James Clark. Expat is a stream oriented XML parser. This means that you register handlers with the parser prior to starting the parse. These handlers are called when the parser discovers the associated structures in the document being parse...

Slackware Linux 15.0 / current expat Vulnerability (SSA:2025-073-01)

The version of expat installed on the remote host is prior to 2.7.0. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SSA:2025-073-01 advisory. New expat packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue. Tenable has extracted the preceding descripti...

Advisory ROSA-SA-2025-2777

Software: xmlrpc-c 1.51.0 OS: ROSA Virtualization 2.1 packageevrstring: xmlrpc-c-1.51.0-10.rv3 CVE-ID: CVE-2021-46143 BDU-ID: 2022-01052 CVE-Crit: HIGH CVE-DESC.: A vulnerability in the doProlog function of the xmlparse.c file of the Expat library is related to integer overflow. Exploitation of t...

[SECURITY] Fedora 41 Update: expat-2.7.0-1.fc41

This is expat, the C library for parsing XML, written by James Clark. Expat is a stream oriented XML parser. This means that you register handlers with the parser prior to starting the parse. These handlers are called when the parser discovers the associated structures in the document being parse...

Slackware: Security Advisory (SSA:2025-073-01)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora 41 : expat (2025-20e86a3c86)

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-20e86a3c86 advisory. Rebase to 2.7.0 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Note that Nessus has not tested for this...

[slackware-security] expat

New expat packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/expat-2.7.0-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update addresses a security issue: Fix crash from chaining a large number of entities...

AZL-58671 CVE-2024-8176 affecting package expat for versions less than 2.6.4-1

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 the stack space and causing a crash...

CVE-2024-8176

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 the stack space and causing a crash...

Amazon Linux 2 : expat (ALAS-2025-2774)

The version of expat installed on the remote host is prior to 2.1.0-15. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-2774 advisory. An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.4. There is a crash within the XMLResumeParser function because XMLStopParser can...

Medium: expat

Issue Overview: An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.4. There is a crash within the XMLResumeParser function because XMLStopParser can stop/suspend an unstarted parser. CVE-2024-50602 Affected Packages: expat Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2 Core repository. Visit...

Medium: expat

Issue Overview: An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.4. There is a crash within the XMLResumeParser function because XMLStopParser can stop/suspend an unstarted parser. CVE-2024-50602 Affected Packages: expat Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2 Core repository. Visit...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-22824

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - defineAttribute in xmlparse.c in Expat aka libexpat before 2.4.3 has an integer overflow. CVE-2022-22824 Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package ...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-25236

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - xmlparse.c in Expat aka libexpat before 2.4.5 allows attackers to insert namespace-separator characters into namespace URIs. CVE-2022-25236 Note that Nessus...