For readers new to Expat: 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. Expat 2.7.3 was released earlier today. The key motivation for cutting a release and doing so now is the two regressions fixed with earlier security fixes: The original fix for vulnerability CVE-2024-8176 in Expat 2.7.0 turned out to cause false reports as w...
