RHSA-2026:13896 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for sudo is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle Support - EXTENSION.

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

The sudo packages contain the sudo utility which allows system administrators to provide certain users with the permission to execute privileged commands, which are used for system management purposes, without having to log in as root.

Security Fix(es):

• sudo: Sudo: Privilege escalation due to failure in privilege drop calls (CVE-2026-35535)

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 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2454714 - CVE-2026-35535 sudo: Sudo: Privilege escalation due to failure in privilege drop calls

CVEs

• CVE-2026-35535

References

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