RHBA-2026:96249 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated Red Hat OpenJDK 11 els for RHEL 8 container images are now available

Description

The Red Hat OpenJDK 11 els for RHEL 8 container images have been updated to address the following security advisory: RHSA-2026:96087 (see References)

Users of Red Hat OpenJDK 11 els for RHEL 8 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 Red Hat OpenJDK 11 els for RHEL 8 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

• OpenJDK Java Extended Life Cycle Support 11 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• OpenJDK Java Extended Life Cycle Support 11 for RHEL 8 s390x
• OpenJDK Java Extended Life Cycle Support 11 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• OpenJDK Java Extended Life Cycle Support 11 for RHEL 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2531725 - CVE-2026-89092 glibc: nscd stack overflow leads to degraded DNS resolution
• BZ - 2536382 - CVE-2026-8674 glibc: glibc DNS stub resolver: Denial of Service via long search domain in configuration
• BZ - 2538209 - CVE-2026-86805 glibc: glibc: Privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution via TOCTOU race condition in dynamic loader
• BZ - 2538306 - CVE-2026-95818 glibc: glibc: Local attacker can cause denial of service and information disclosure via stack-based buffer overflow.

CVEs

• CVE-2026-8674
• CVE-2026-86805
• CVE-2026-89092
• CVE-2026-95818

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:96087
• https://access.redhat.com/containers