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Mageia 9: Critical Cleartext Vulnerability in Stardict CVE-2025-55014

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Calendar Grey November 15, 2025
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia released a security update for stardict addressing CVE-2025-55014, which involved cleartext data vulnerabilities.
MGASA-2025-0298 - Updated stardict packages fix security vulnerability

Summary

Description: The YouDao plugin for StarDict, as used in stardict 3.0.7+git20220909+dfsg-6 in Debian trixie and elsewhere, sends an X11 selection to the dict.youdao.com and dict.cn servers via cleartext HTTP. (CVE-2025-55014)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34533

- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2025/q3/75

- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2025/q3/81

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-55014

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue important Mageia cleartext stardict

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/stardict-3.0.6.3-2.1.mga9

Severity
important
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Critical

Publication date: 15 Nov 2025
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0298.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2025-55014

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue important Mageia cleartext stardict

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