AlmaLinux has released two security updates for its users: ALSA-2026:2323 and ALSA-2026:2389. The first update addresses a denial of service vulnerability in Git Large File Storage (LFS) due to excessive resource consumption via crafted certificates, affecting the crypto/x509 module in golang. The second update fixes a Python brotli decompression bomb DoS issue in Scrapy's python-scrapy package. Both updates are available for AlmaLinux 8 and have been released as part of an Important security patch.

ALSA-2026:2323: git-lfs security update (Important)
ALSA-2026:2389: brotli security update (Important)

ALSA-2026:2323: git-lfs security update (Important)

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AlmaLinux: 8
Type: Security
Severity: Important
Release date: 2026-02-11

Summary:

Git Large File Storage (LFS) replaces large files such as audio samples, videos, datasets, and graphics with text pointers inside Git, while storing the file contents on a remote server.

Security Fix(es):

* crypto/x509: golang: Denial of Service due to excessive resource consumption via crafted certificate (CVE-2025-61729)

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-2026-2323.html

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ALSA-2026:2389: brotli security update (Important)

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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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