SB2026020576 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 update for brotli
Published: February 5, 2026
Security Bulletin ID
SB2026020576
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-6176)
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 its brotli decompression implementation. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and crash clients with less than 80GB of available memory.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.