RHSA-2026:2228 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: brotli security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · February 9, 2026
Updated · October 9, 2026
Topic
An update for brotli is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
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.