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Recursion kills: The story behind CVE-2024-8176 in libexpat

blog.hartwork.org 10 min read

libexpat is a fast streaming XML parser. Alongside libxml2, Expat is one of the most widely used software libre XML parsers written in C, specifically C99. It is cross-platform and licensed under the MIT license .

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