Google: dev-libs/expat: security update to 18867.0.75

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 472577

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- 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. (CVE-2024-8176)

Solution

Update the dev-libs/expat library and its related packages to version 18867.0.75 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 472577

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Google COS Security Checks

Published: 10/5/2026

Updated: 10/5/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.74

Vendor

Vendor Severity: LOW

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-8176

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-8176

Detections

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