Bug 2488907

Summary:	CVE-2026-9669 mercurial: Python: Denial of Service via out-of-bounds write in BZ2 decompression [fedora-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Srikanth Balasubramanian <sbalasub>
Component:	mercurial	Assignee:	Mads Kiilerich <mads>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	45	CC:	fedoraproject.org, mads, ndbecker2, opohorel, pstodulk
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Target Release:	---	Flags:	mads: needinfo? (sbalasub)
Hardware:	Unspecified
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Whiteboard:	{"flaws": ["8e338b81-6934-49ac-b3ef-e2a1ce0c214e"]}
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Bug Blocks:	2486590

Description Srikanth Balasubramanian 2026-06-15 14:36:36 UTC

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Comment 1 Mads Kiilerich 2026-06-15 21:00:38 UTC

What is the value of this report? What should who do about that?

Comment 2 Aoife Moloney 2026-08-17 14:51:19 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 45 development cycle.
Changing version to 45.