CVE-2026-77680
Canonical Ubuntu Linux: denial of service can lead to information disclosure
- Risk score
- 42/100
- CVSS
- 5.3 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.3%
- Published
- 25 Aug 2026
Open in the live forecast Today's forecast
What to know
- What it is
- An algorithmic complexity flaw exists in libsoup's HTTP Range header processing that persists after the CVE-2025-32907 fix. CVE-2025-32907 addressed memory amplification when a client repeated the same range many times in a single Range header. Commit 9bb92f7a corrected merge correctness in soup_message_headers_get_ra…
- Affected
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 5.3 medium
- Named in a government or vendor bulletin
Government and vendor bulletins
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8890-2
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-32907
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-77680
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2520892
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libsoup/-/issues/538
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libsoup/-/merge_requests/550
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libsoup/-/issues/538
Original description
An algorithmic complexity flaw exists in libsoup's HTTP Range header processing that persists after the CVE-2025-32907 fix. CVE-2025-32907 addressed memory amplification when a client repeated the same range many times in a single Range header. Commit 9bb92f7a corrected merge correctness in soup_message_headers_get_ranges_internal() in libsoup/soup-message-headers.c, but the coalescing loop still removes merged ranges using g_array_remove_index() for each coalesced element. Because GArray is contiguous, each mid-array removal performs an O(N) memmove. When many identical satisfiable ranges are supplied (for example bytes=0-0 repeated thousands of times), the loop performs O(N²) work coalescing them into a single range. The vulnerable path is reachable server-side from handle_partial_get() in libsoup/server/http1/soup-server-message-io-http1.c when a SoupServer handler returns HTTP 200 with a non-empty body. No authentication is required. The number of ranges is bounded only by the maximum request header size (~100 KiB), allowing roughly 25,000 ranges per request. Reporter measurements on libsoup HEAD containing the CVE-2025-32907 fix show ~90 ms single-core CPU per such request at the wire maximum, blocking the server's event loop for that duration. This is a CPU exhaustion / availability issue only. No memory corruption or information disclosure occurs. Affected: libsoup versions containing the CVE-2025-32907 fix but not merge request !550. Fixed upstream: MR !550 merged 2026-08-20, replacing per-element removal with O(N) in-place compaction and rejecting Range headers requesting more than 200 ranges. Upstream report: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libsoup/-/issues/538 Related: CVE-2025-32907
Last activity 21 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.