RHBA-2026:79714 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated RHEL-9 based Middleware Containers container images are now available

Description

The RHEL-9 based Middleware Containers container images have been updated to address the following security advisory: RHSA-2026:73512 (see References)

Users of RHEL-9 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-9 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 JBoss Middleware 1 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2499655 - CVE-2026-40468 gawk: gawk: Memory corruption via integer overflow
• BZ - 2499657 - CVE-2026-40553 gawk: Gawk: Buffer overflow in ftype() routine may lead to code execution or denial of service
• BZ - 2499658 - CVE-2026-40467 gawk: gawk: Denial of Service due to Use After Free vulnerability in io.c

CVEs

• CVE-2026-40467
• CVE-2026-40468
• CVE-2026-40553
• CVE-2026-66046
• CVE-2026-74860
• CVE-2026-86138
• CVE-2026-86140
• CVE-2026-86142
• CVE-2026-86143
• CVE-2026-86144
• CVE-2026-93990

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:73512
• https://access.redhat.com/containers