Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: expat security update

An update for expat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

Important: expat

Issue Overview: 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 Affected Packages: expat Issue Correction: Run dnf update expat --releasever 2023.9.20250929 or dnf update --advisory...

expat: Malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 sequences can lead to arbitrary code execution

A flaw was found in expat. Passing malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 sequences for example, from start tag names to the XML processing application on top of expat can lead to arbitrary code execution. This issue is dependent on how invalid UTF-8 is handled inside the XML processor...