CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-8176

7.5 HIGH Published 2025-03-14 Modified 2026-10-21 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2025-03-14
Last modified
2026-10-21
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-674

Description

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.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion weakness

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