{"id":"RLSA-2025:21974","summary":"Important: mingw-expat security update","details":"Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents. The mingw-expat packages provide a port of the Expat library for MinGW. \n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n* expat: libexpat in Expat allows attackers to trigger large dynamic memory allocations via a small document that is submitted for parsing (CVE-2025-59375)\n\nFor 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.","modified":"2026-03-11T06:34:52.149319Z","published":"2025-11-25T09:04:09.332507Z","upstream":["CVE-2025-59375"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:21974"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2395108"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"mingw-expat","ecosystem":"Rocky Linux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/mingw-expat?distro=rocky-linux-8-x86-64&epoch=0"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0:2.5.0-1.el8_10"}],"database_specific":{"yum_repository":"PowerTools"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2025:21974.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L"}],"credits":[{"name":"Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation"},{"name":"Red Hat"}]}