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ALSA-2025:21974 Not scored

Important: mingw-expat security update

Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents. The mingw-expat packages provide a port of the Expat library for MinGW. Security Fix(es): * expat: libexpat in Expat allows attackers to trigger large dynamic memory allocations via a small document that is submitted for parsing (CVE-2025-59375) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Exploit probability Not scored
Published November 24, 2025
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

AlmaLinux:8 mingw32-expat
AlmaLinux:8 mingw64-expat

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities ALSA-2025:21974

Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents. The mingw-expat packages provide a port of the Expat library for MinGW. Security Fix(es): * expat: libexpat in Expat allows attackers to trigger large dynamic memory allocations via a small document that is submitted for parsing (CVE-2025-59375) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence