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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7424-1
April 08, 2025

expat vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 24.10
- Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Summary:

Expat could be made to crash if it received specially crafted
input.

Software Description:
- expat: XML parsing C library

Details:

It was discovered that Expat could crash due to stack overflow when
processing XML documents with deeply nested entity references. If a user
or automated system were tricked into processing specially crafted XML
input, an attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 24.10
  expat                           2.6.2-2ubuntu0.2
  libexpat1                       2.6.2-2ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
  expat                           2.6.1-2ubuntu0.3
  libexpat1                       2.6.1-2ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  expat                           2.4.7-1ubuntu0.6
  libexpat1                       2.4.7-1ubuntu0.6

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7424-1
  CVE-2024-8176

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/expat/2.6.2-2ubuntu0.2
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/expat/2.6.1-2ubuntu0.3
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/expat/2.4.7-1ubuntu0.6