CVE-2025-2784

Publication date 3 April 2025

Last updated 19 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A flaw was found in libsoup. The package is vulnerable to a heap buffer over-read when sniffing content via the skip_insight_whitespace() function. Libsoup clients may read one byte out-of-bounds in response to a crafted HTTP response by an HTTP server.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libsoup3	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Fixed 3.6.0-2ubuntu0.2
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 3.4.4-5ubuntu0.2
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 3.0.7-0ubuntu1+esm2
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
libsoup2.4	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Fixed 2.74.3-7ubuntu0.2
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 2.74.3-6ubuntu1.2
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2.74.2-3ubuntu0.2
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2.70.0-1ubuntu0.2
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.62.1-1ubuntu0.4+esm5
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.52.2-1ubuntu0.3+esm4

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
libsoup3	Upstream: 242a10f Upstream: c415ad0

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.0 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H