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High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 14, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2024-8176

CVE-2024-8176

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.

Patches

1

Vulnerability mechanics

Synthesis attempt was rejected by the grounding validator. Re-run pending.

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