SB20250529118 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 update for libsoup
Published: May 29, 2025
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 4 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Buffer Over-read (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-2784)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the skip_insignificant_whitespace() function when reading server HTTP response. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and read 1 byte out of bounds.
2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-32049)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources in SoupWebsocketConnection. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
3) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-32914)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition within the soup_multipart_new_from_message() function. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system.
4) Integer underflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-4948)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to integer underflow within the soup_multipart_new_from_message() function when handling multipart messages. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger an integer underflow and crash the application.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.