Greetings Guix, What's old is new again! Expat 2.4.0 was recently released with a fix for a denial of service issue dubbed "billion laughs attack": https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_4_0/expat/Changes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs_attack Seeing as this vulnerability appears to be eight years old and is "merely" a DoS: is it worth fixing on the 'master' branch (and re-grafting pretty much everything)? In any case I've attached a patch that does just that and I'm currently using it on my system. I'm hesitant to push it because of the grafting cost and would like others opinion.