Medium [CVE-2025-32909] Libsoup: null pointer dereference on libsoup through function "sniff_mp4" in soup-content-sniffer.c
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2025-32909 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
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Summary
A flaw was found in libsoup. SoupContentSniffer may be vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference in the sniff_mp4 function.
The HTTP server may cause the libsoup client to crash. This vulnerability is currently considered Moderate as this may only affect the client HTTP side.
Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 5.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L). Weakness: CWE-476.
Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Will not fix / out of support: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat fixing advisory: RHSA-2025:8292.
Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat package: mingw-freetype; Red Hat package: spice-client-win; Red Hat package: libsoup.
Affected versions
No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative — check it before change work.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 15 days ago·verify at source
- mingw-freetype-0:2.8-3.el8_10.1
- spice-client-win-0:8.10-1
- RHSA-2025:8292
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 15 days ago·verify at source
Mitigation checklist
- Currently, no mitigation is available for this vulnerability.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 15 days ago·verify at source
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