Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS2-2025-2841
Advisory Released Date: 2025-04-30
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-04-30
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
A flaw was found in libsoup. The package is vulnerable to a heap buffer over-read when sniffing content via the skip_insight_whitespace() function. Libsoup clients may read one byte out-of-bounds in response to a crafted HTTP response by an HTTP server. (CVE-2025-2784)
Affected Packages:
libsoup
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update libsoup to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
libsoup-2.56.0-6.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
libsoup-devel-2.56.0-6.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
libsoup-debuginfo-2.56.0-6.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
i686:
libsoup-2.56.0-6.amzn2.0.2.i686
libsoup-devel-2.56.0-6.amzn2.0.2.i686
libsoup-debuginfo-2.56.0-6.amzn2.0.2.i686
src:
libsoup-2.56.0-6.amzn2.0.2.src
x86_64:
libsoup-2.56.0-6.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
libsoup-devel-2.56.0-6.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
libsoup-debuginfo-2.56.0-6.amzn2.0.2.x86_64