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Critical Uncontrolled Recursion Vulnerability in Fedora 43: rust-maxminddb

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Calendar Grey October 14, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Addressing a critical uncontrolled recursion issue in rust-maxminddb with necessary updates to related crates in Fedora 43.
Update mirrorlist-server to version 3.0.8

Summary

Library for reading MaxMind DB format used by GeoIP2 and GeoLite2.

Update Information:

Update mirrorlist-server to version 3.0.8. Update the maxminddb crate to version 0.26.0. Update the prometheus crate to version 0.14.0. Update the protobuf and protobuf-codegen crates to version 3.7.2. Initial packaging of the protobuf-parse and protobuf-support crates. This includes fixes for CVE-2025-53605 (Uncontrolled Recursion Vulnerability in the protobuf crate).

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security advisory fedora critical protobuf uncontrolled recursion rust-maxminddb

Change Log

* Tue Sep 30 2025 Fabio Valentini - 0.26.0-1 - Update to version 0.26.0; Fixes RHBZ#2257537

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2376751 - CVE-2025-53605 mirrorlist-server: Protobuf: Uncontrolled Recursion Vulnerability [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2376751 [ 2 ] Bug #2401160 - F43FailsToInstall: rust-prometheus+protobuf-codegen-pure-devel https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2401160

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-9e77f6ddcb' 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: rust-maxminddb
Product: Fedora 43
Version: 0.26.0
Release: 1.fc43
URL: https://crates.io/crates/maxminddb
Summary: Library for reading MaxMind DB format used by GeoIP2 and GeoLite2

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