CVE-2024-8176 — Libexpat: expat: improper restriction of xml entity expansion depth in libexpat
A stack overflow vulnerability exists in the libexpat library due to the way it handles recursive entity expansion in XML documents. When parsing an XML document with deeply nes…
Published: 2025-03-14 · CVSS: 7.5 · CVSS 3.1
A stack overflow vulnerability exists in the libexpat library due to the way it handles recursive entity expansion in XML documents. When parsing an XML document with deeply nested entity references, libexpat can be forced to recurse indefinitely, exhausting the stack space and causing a crash. This issue could lead to denial of service (DoS) or, in some cases, exploitable memory corruption, depending on the environment and library usage.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7