Bug 2419493 - CVE-2025-6176 brotli: Brotli decompression bomb DoS in scrapy/scrapy [fedora-43]
Summary: CVE-2025-6176 brotli: Brotli decompression bomb DoS in scrapy/scrapy [fedora-43]
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: brotli
Version: 43
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jonathan Wright
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["5111d55a-92f4-40bf-87ee-f...
Depends On:
Blocks: CVE-2025-6176
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2025-12-05 18:06 UTC by Jon Moroney
Modified: 2025-12-12 01:33 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: brotli-1.2.0-1.fc43
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2025-12-12 01:33:32 UTC
Type: ---
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Description Jon Moroney 2025-12-05 18:06:21 UTC
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The following link provides references to all essential vulnerability management information. If something is wrong or missing, please contact a member of PSIRT.
https://spaces.redhat.com/display/PRODSEC/Vulnerability+Management+-+Essential+Documents+for+Engineering+Teams

Comment 1 Ben Beasley 2025-12-10 12:34:01 UTC
Updating brotli to 1.2.0 will expose the Python APIs necessary to mitigate this in scrapy. The actual fix will then be updating python-scrapy to 2.13.4, https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/news.html#scrapy-2-13-4-2025-11-17.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2025-12-10 20:47:13 UTC
FEDORA-2025-d93200cf16 (brotli-1.2.0-1.fc43, perl-Alien-Brotli-0.2.2-11.fc43, and 1 more) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 43.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-d93200cf16

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2025-12-11 10:14:14 UTC
FEDORA-2025-d93200cf16 has been pushed to the Fedora 43 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2025-d93200cf16`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-d93200cf16

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2025-12-12 01:33:32 UTC
FEDORA-2025-d93200cf16 (brotli-1.2.0-1.fc43, perl-Alien-Brotli-0.2.2-11.fc43, and 1 more) has been pushed to the Fedora 43 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.


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