Summary
The fence-agents packages provide a collection of scripts for handling remote power management for cluster devices. They allow failed or unreachable nodes to be forcibly restarted and removed from the cluster.
Security Fix(es):
* urllib3: urllib3: Unbounded decompression chain leads to resource exhaustion (CVE-2025-66418)
* urllib3: urllib3 Streaming API improperly handles highly compressed data (CVE-2025-66471)
* urllib3: urllib3 vulnerable to decompression-bomb safeguard bypass when following HTTP redirects (streaming API) (CVE-2026-21441)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Fixed packages 1
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Rocky Linux · 8 | fence-agents | 0:4.2.1-129.el8_10.20 |
Vulnerabilities 3
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High 8.9
urllib3 allows an unbounded number of links in the decompression chain
urllib3 is a user-friendly HTTP client library for Python. Starting in version 1.24 and prior to 2.6.0, the number of links in the decompression chain was unbounded allowing a malicious server to insert a virtually unlimited number of compression steps leadin…
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High 8.9
urllib3 Streaming API improperly handles highly compressed data
urllib3 is a user-friendly HTTP client library for Python. Starting in version 1.0 and prior to 2.6.0, the Streaming API improperly handles highly compressed data. urllib3's streaming API is designed for the efficient handling of large HTTP responses by readi…
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High 8.9
urllib3 vulnerable to decompression-bomb safeguard bypass when following HTTP redirects (streaming API)
urllib3 is an HTTP client library for Python. urllib3's streaming API is designed for the efficient handling of large HTTP responses by reading the content in chunks, rather than loading the entire response body into memory at once. urllib3 can perform decodi…