Red Hat alert RHSA-2026:63163-01 (container-tools:rhel8) [LWN.net]

An update for the container-tools:rhel8 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 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): * net/mail: golang: net/mail: Denial of Service via pathological email address parsing (CVE-2026-42499) * encoding/asn1: golang: Go encoding/asn1: Denial of Service via excessive recursion in Unmarshal (CVE-2026-33818) * net/url: golang: golang net/url: Denial of Service from quadratic complexity in path resolution (CVE-2026-56860) * net/http: golang: Go net/http: Unencrypted HTTP/2 connections vulnerable to Denial of Service (CVE-2026-56853) * html/template: golang: Go html/template: Cross-Site Scripting via pathological input (CVE-2026-56858) * crypto/tls: golang: Golang crypto/tls: Denial of Service via indefinite KeyUpdate messages (CVE-2026-56862) * encoding/xml: golang: Go: Denial of Service via XML decoding recursion depth issue (CVE-2026-56859) 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.

Original: https://access.redhat.com/security/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_63163.json