An update for expat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update
 Services for SAP Solutions and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Service.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
 Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents.

Security Fix(es):

* expat: internal entity expansion (CVE-2013-0340)

* expat: integer overflow in the doProlog function (CVE-2022-23990)

* libexpat: expat: Improper Restriction of XML Entity Expansion Depth in
 libexpat (CVE-2024-8176)

* expat: libexpat in Expat allows attackers to trigger large dynamic memory
 allocations via a small document that is submitted for parsing (CVE-2025-59375)

For 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.

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CVE-2013-0340
CVE-2022-23990: Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE-190)
CVE-2024-8176: Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674)
CVE-2025-59375: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770)