Critical DoS Vulnerability in mingw-python3 Affects Fedora 42 and 43

Critical DoS Vulnerability in mingw-python3 Affects Fedora 42 and 43

First seen 23 Dec 2025, 10:01 UTC Linuxsecurity 39.3

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A critical denial of service vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-12084, affects the mingw-python3 package in Fedora 42 and 43 due to a quadratic algorithm issue in xml.dom.minidom. The vulnerability can lead to service disruptions for users of these Fedora versions. Users are advised to apply patches as they become available.