SB2025053020 - Fedora 41 update for mingw-libsoup
Published: May 30, 2025
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 7 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-4476)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error. when handling 401 (Unauthorized) HTTP responses. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
2) 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.
3) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-4969)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition when handling multipart HTTP messages. 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) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-46420)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due memory leak within the soup_header_parse_quality_list() function. A remote attacker can force the application to leak memory and perform denial of service attack.
5) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-46421)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to libsoup includes authorization headers into requests when handling HTTP redirects. A remote attacker can gain access to credentials intended for a different website.
6) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-4945)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow when handling cookies. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger an integer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
7) 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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.