RHSA-2025:22969 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for libwebsockets is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform
17.1 (Wallaby).

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability
from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Security Fix(es):

• Stack-based Buffer Overflow in libwebsockets (CVE-2025-11678)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenStack 17.1 for RHEL 9 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2405139 - CVE-2025-11678 libwebsockets: Stack-based Buffer Overflow in libwebsockets

CVEs

• CVE-2025-11678

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important