RHSA-2026:2401 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: brotli security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · February 10, 2026
Updated · October 9, 2026
Topic
An update for brotli is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support.
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.