RHBA-2025:2617 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for libselinux is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Description

The libselinux packages contain the core library of an SELinux system. The libselinux library provides an API for SELinux applications to get and set process and file security contexts, and to obtain security policy decisions. It is required for any applications that use the SELinux API, and is used by all applications that are SELinux-aware.

Bug Fix(es):

• Various semodule commands segfault when an selinux policy is not installed (JIRA:RHEL-74252)
• python function "restorecon" not working when executed from python script (JIRA:RHEL-73348)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems 8 s390x

Fixes

• RHEL-74252 - Various semodule commands segfault when an selinux policy is not installed
• RHEL-73348 - python function "restorecon" not working when executed from python script

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)