Bug 2500945 - CVE-2026-48801 frama-c: linkify-it: Denial of Service via algorithmic complexity vulnerability [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-48801 frama-c: linkify-it: Denial of Service via algorithmic complex...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: frama-c
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
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Assignee: Jerry James
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["7906587f-f2c6-43d0-bc1e-8...
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Blocks: CVE-2026-48801
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Reported: 2026-07-15 13:46 UTC by Marian Rehak
Modified: 2026-07-15 14:02 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2026-07-15 14:02:17 UTC
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Description Marian Rehak 2026-07-15 13:46:49 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.

linkify-it is a links recognition library with full Unicode support. Prior to 5.0.1, LinkifyIt.prototype.match, the package's primary public API, has O(N²) algorithmic complexity for inputs containing many fuzzy links or emails because the JavaScript-level scan loop re-slices input and re-runs unanchored regex searches on progressively shorter tails. Any service that synchronously renders untrusted Markdown with linkify:true on a request hot path can inherit a worker-process denial of service triggerable by a tens-of-KB request body. This issue is fixed in version 5.0.1.

Comment 1 Jerry James 2026-07-15 14:02:17 UTC
As I have noted many times, the frama-c package does not build or ship any of the JavaScript for the Ivette graphical frontend, so any vulnerabilities in that JavaScript are irrelevant for Fedora.


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