Red Hat alert RHSA-2026:51288-01 (container-tools:rhel8) [LWN.net]

An update for the container-tools:rhel8 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On. 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. The container-tools module contains tools for working with containers, notably podman, buildah, skopeo, and runc. Security Fix(es): * crypto/x509: golang: Denial of Service due to excessive resource consumption via crafted certificate (CVE-2025-61729) * golang: archive/zip: Excessive CPU consumption when building archive index in archive/zip (CVE-2025-61728) * golang: net/url: Memory exhaustion in query parameter parsing in net/url (CVE-2025-61726) * crypto/tls: crypto/tls: Incorrect certificate validation during TLS session resumption (CVE-2025-68121) * net/url: Incorrect parsing of IPv6 host literals in net/url (CVE-2026-25679) * crypto/x509: golang: Go crypto/x509: Denial of Service via inefficient certificate chain validation (CVE-2026-32281) * crypto/tls: golang: Go crypto/tls: Denial of Service via multiple TLS 1.3 key update messages (CVE-2026-32283) * crypto/x509: crypto/tls: golang: Go: Denial of Service vulnerability in certificate chain building (CVE-2026-32280) * golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/knownhosts: golang: golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/knownhosts: Revocation bypass via unchecked SignatureKey (CVE-2026-42508) 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. This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.

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