AlmaLinux alert ALSA-2026:2389 (brotli)

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[Announce]  [Security Advisory] ALSA-2026:2389: brotli security update (Important)
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Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:01:40 +0000
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AlmaLinux: 8
Type: Security
Severity: Important
Release date: 2026-02-11

Summary:

Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination
of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modeling, with a
compression ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods.
It is similar in speed with deflate but offers more dense compression.   

Security Fix(es):  

  * Scrapy: python-scrapy: brotli: Python brotli decompression bomb DoS (CVE-2025-6176)


For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments,
and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.


Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information:
https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2026-2389.html

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