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Fedora 44 NGINX-Mod-Brotli Critical Fix for CVE-2026-42533

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Calendar Grey July 22, 2026
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Latest Fedora update for nginx-mod-brotli fixes critical issues including arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities through crafted requests.
The Fedora 44 update includes several NGINX modules rebuilt for version 1.30.4, addressing security vulnerabilities CVE-2026-42533, CVE-2026-60005, and CVE-2026-56434.

Summary

NGINX module for Brotli compression.

Update Information:

nginx-mod-fancyindex: Rebuild for 1.30.4 nginx-mod-modsecurity: Rebuild for 1.30.4 nginx-mod-naxsi: Rebuild for 1.30.4 nginx-mod-headers-more: Rebuild for 1.30.4 nginx-mod-brotli: Rebuild for 1.30.4 nginx-mod-js-challenge: Rebuild for 1.30.4 nginx-mod-vts: Rebuild for 1.30.4 nginx: update to 1.30.4 fixes CVE-2026-42533, CVE-2026-60005, CVE-2026-56434

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Change Log

* Sun Jul 19 2026 Felix Kaechele - 1.0.0~rc-13 - Rebuild for 1.30.4 * Thu Jul 16 2026 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.0.0~rc-12 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_45_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2501307 - CVE-2026-42533 nginx: NGINX: Arbitrary code execution via crafted HTTP requests [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2501307

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-60fc198d3b' 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: nginx-mod-brotli
Product: Fedora 44
Version: 1.0.0~rc
Release: 13.fc44
URL: https://github.com/google/ngx_brotli
Summary: NGINX module for Brotli compression

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