RHSA-2025:21815 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for multiple packages is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The Go Programming Language.

Security Fix(es):

• golang: archive/tar: Unbounded allocation when parsing GNU sparse map (CVE-2025-58183)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2407258 - CVE-2025-58183 golang: archive/tar: Unbounded allocation when parsing GNU sparse map
• RHEL-117130 - Latest rhel-9.7 golang-1.24.6-1.el9 release number conflicts with previous z-stream build

CVEs

• CVE-2025-58183

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate