RHSA-2025:11386 - Security 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

Fixes

• BZ - 2370010 - CVE-2025-4435 cpython: Tarfile extracts filtered members when errorlevel=0
• BZ - 2370013 - CVE-2024-12718 cpython: python: Bypass extraction filter to modify file metadata outside extraction directory
• BZ - 2370014 - CVE-2025-4330 cpython: python: Extraction filter bypass for linking outside extraction directory
• BZ - 2370016 - CVE-2025-4517 python: cpython: Arbitrary writes via tarfile realpath overflow
• 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
• BZ - 2372426 - CVE-2025-4138 cpython: python: Bypassing extraction filter to create symlinks to arbitrary targets outside extraction directory
• BZ - 2372512 - CVE-2025-6020 linux-pam: Linux-pam directory Traversal

CVEs

• CVE-2024-12718
• CVE-2025-4138
• CVE-2025-4330
• CVE-2025-4435
• CVE-2025-4517
• CVE-2025-6020
• CVE-2025-6021
• CVE-2025-49794
• CVE-2025-49796

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10698
• https://access.redhat.com/containers