{"id":"ALSA-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\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.\n","modified":"2026-02-04T02:14:52.599961Z","published":"2025-11-24T00:00:00Z","related":["CVE-2025-59375"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21974"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-59375"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2395108"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2025-21974.html"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"mingw32-expat","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/mingw32-expat"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.5.0-1.el8_10"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2025:21974.json"}},{"package":{"name":"mingw64-expat","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/mingw64-expat"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.5.0-1.el8_10"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2025:21974.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}