RHBA-2025:10816 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers container images are now available

Description

The RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers container images have been updated to address the following security advisory: RHSA-2025:10698 (see References)

Users of RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers container images are advised to upgrade to these updated images, which contain backported patches to correct these security issues, fix these bugs and add these enhancements. Users of these images are also encouraged to rebuild all container images that depend on these images.

You can find images updated by this advisory in Red Hat Container Catalog (see References).

Solution

The RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers container images provided by this update can be downloaded from the Red Hat Container Registry at registry.access.redhat.com. Installation instructions for your platform are available at Red Hat Container Catalog (see References).

Dockerfiles and scripts should be amended either to refer to this new image specifically, or to the latest image generally.

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.10 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.10 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.10 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2372373 - CVE-2025-49794 libxml: Heap use after free (UAF) leads to Denial of service (DoS)
• BZ - 2372385 - CVE-2025-49796 libxml: Type confusion leads to Denial of service (DoS)
• BZ - 2372406 - CVE-2025-6021 libxml2: Integer Overflow in xmlBuildQName() Leads to Stack Buffer Overflow in libxml2

CVEs

• CVE-2025-6021
• CVE-2025-49794
• CVE-2025-49796

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10698
• https://access.redhat.com/containers