Mageia alert MGASA-2026-0004 (sodium)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2026-0004: Updated sodium packages fix security vulnerability
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Sat, 10 Jan 2026 06:08:34 +0100
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MGASA-2026-0004 - Updated sodium packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 10 Jan 2026
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2026-0004.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 9
CVE: CVE-2025-69277

Description:
Libsodium before ad3004e, in atypical use cases involving certain custom
cryptography or untrusted data to crypto_core_ed25519_is_valid_point,
mishandles checks for whether an elliptic curve point is valid because
it sometimes allows points that aren't in the main cryptographic group.
(CVE-2025-69277)

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34940
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2026/ms...
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2025-6...

SRPMS:
- 9/core/sodium-1.0.18-3.1.mga9