RHSA-2026:13671 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for image-builder is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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

A local binary for building customized OS artifacts such as VM images and OSTree commits. Uses osbuild under the hood.

Security Fix(es):

• net/url: Incorrect parsing of IPv6 host literals in net/url (CVE-2026-25679)

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 - 2445356 - CVE-2026-25679 net/url: Incorrect parsing of IPv6 host literals in net/url

CVEs

• CVE-2026-25679

References

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