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Alpine Linux: CVE-2025-59375: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 15, 2025
Added
Sep 22, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

libexpat in Expat before 2.7.2 allows attackers to trigger large dynamic memory allocations via a small document that is submitted for parsing.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-expat
Title
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