ALSA-2026:2042
ALSA-2026:2042 · Important: brotli security update
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Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed with deflate but offers more dense compression. Security Fix(es): * Scrapy: python-scrapy: brotli: Python brotli decompression bomb DoS (CVE-2025-6176) 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.
Fix available
- Published
- Updated
Stack: system
Affected products and versions
brotli AlmaLinux:9
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 1.0.9-9.el9_7
Update to 1.0.9-9.el9_7
brotli-devel AlmaLinux:9
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 1.0.9-9.el9_7
Update to 1.0.9-9.el9_7
libbrotli AlmaLinux:9
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 1.0.9-9.el9_7
Update to 1.0.9-9.el9_7
python3-brotli AlmaLinux:9
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 1.0.9-9.el9_7
Update to 1.0.9-9.el9_7