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Fedora 43 Fractal Medium Stack Exhaustion Risk Resolution 2026-9630be304f

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Calendar Grey July 22, 2026
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Explore the Fractal 14.1 update on Fedora 43 which addresses a stack exhaustion issue impacting messaging.
Fedora 43 has released an update for Fractal version 14.1, a Matrix messaging app for GNOME, addressing several vulnerabilities and improving functionality for group collaboration.

Summary

Fractal is a Matrix messaging app for GNOME written in Rust. Its interface is

optimized for collaboration in large groups, such as free software projects.

Update Information:

14.1

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Change Log

* Mon Jul 20 2026 Gwyn Ciesla - 14.1-1 - 14.1 * Wed Jul 15 2026 Fedora Release Engineering - 14-0.beta.2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_45_Mass_Rebuild * Fri Jun 12 2026 Yaakov Selkowitz - 14-0.beta.1 - Rebuilt for openssl 4.0 * Wed Apr 1 2026 Gwyn Ciesla - 14-0.beta - 14 beta

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2420427 - CVE-2025-66622 fractal: matrix-sdk-base is vulnerable to DoS via custom m.room.join_rules event values [fedora-43] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2420427 [ 2 ] Bug #2423493 - fractal: webp crate may expose memory contents [fedora-43] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2423493 [ 3 ] Bug #2438128 - CVE-2026-25727 fractal: time affected by a stack exhaustion denial of service attack [fedora-43] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2438128 [ 4 ] Bug #2502176 - fractal-14.1 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2502176

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-9630be304f' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: fractal
Product: Fedora 43
Version: 14.1
Release: 1.fc43
URL: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/fractal
Summary: Matrix group messaging app

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