SB2025110101 - Fedora 42 update for dolphin-emu
Published: November 1, 2025
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-52496)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform MitM attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a race condition on x86 and amd64 systems that have the AESNI instruction, as it can be used for AES encryption and decryption. A remote attacker can extract AES keys from multithreaded programs and use them to decrypt traffic.
2) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-48965)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error within the mbedtls_asn1_store_named_data() function. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
3) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-47917)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error within the mbedtls_x509_string_to_names() function. A remote attacker can send specially crafted data to the application, trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code on the system.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.