Bug 2500488 - CVE-2026-15709 mingw-libsoup: libsoup: WebSocket permessage-deflate Unbounded Decompression Remote Denial of Service [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-15709 mingw-libsoup: libsoup: WebSocket permessage-deflate Unbounded...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mingw-libsoup
Version: 45
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
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Assignee: Kalev Lember
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["b2b08115-f28a-4476-8990-1...
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Blocks: CVE-2026-15709
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Reported: 2026-07-14 18:42 UTC by Ganesh
Modified: 2026-08-17 15:19 UTC (History)
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Description Ganesh 2026-07-14 18:42:25 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

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.

Comment 1 Aoife Moloney 2026-08-17 15:19:33 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 45 development cycle.
Changing version to 45.


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