Bug 2499922 (CVE-2026-15709) - CVE-2026-15709 SoupWebsocketExtensionDeflate: libsoup: libsoup: WebSocket permessage-deflate Unbounded Decompression Remote Denial of Service
Summary: CVE-2026-15709 SoupWebsocketExtensionDeflate: libsoup: libsoup: WebSocket per...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-15709
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On: 2500488 2500489 2500490
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-07-14 09:43 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-07-14 19:37 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-14 09:43:35 UTC
A flaw in libsoup’s `permessage-deflate` WebSocket extension allows a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service via memory exhaustion. The internal `inflate()` loop resizes its buffer dynamically without enforcing an upper limit *during* decompression. Because size checks are either performed only on the compressed wire-payload or executed too late (after inflation completes), a small decompression bomb can trigger an immediate Out-of-Memory (OOM) crash on both client and server applications.


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