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Red Hat: CVE-2025-59375: expat: libexpat in Expat allows attackers to trigger large dynamic memory allocations via a small document that is submitted for parsing (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 15, 2025
Added
Nov 21, 2025
Modified
Jan 28, 2026

Description

A memory amplification vulnerability in libexpat allows attackers to trigger excessive dynamic memory allocations by submitting specially crafted XML input. A small input (~250 KiB) can cause the parser to allocate hundreds of megabytes, leading to denial-of-service (DoS) through memory exhaustion.

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