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RLSA-2026:2042

RLSA-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.

CVSS 7.5 · High · Fix available

Published
Updated

Stack: system

Affected products and versions

  • brotli Rocky Linux:9

    Affected ranges
    • ECOSYSTEM: < 0:1.0.9-9.el9_7

    Update to 0:1.0.9-9.el9_7

Original sources

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