RHSA-2026:16875 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for git-lfs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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

Git Large File Storage (LFS) replaces large files such as audio samples, videos, datasets, and graphics with text pointers inside Git, while storing the file contents on a remote server.

Security Fix(es):

• net/url: Incorrect parsing of IPv6 host literals in net/url (CVE-2026-25679)
• golang: internal/syscall/unix: Root.Chmod can follow symlinks out of the root (CVE-2026-32282)
• crypto/tls: golang: Go crypto/tls: Denial of Service via multiple TLS 1.3 key update messages (CVE-2026-32283)
• crypto/x509: crypto/tls: golang: Go: Denial of Service vulnerability in certificate chain building (CVE-2026-32280)

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 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle 8.10 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Life Cycle 8.10 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Life Cycle 8.10 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Life Cycle 8.10 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2445356 - CVE-2026-25679 net/url: Incorrect parsing of IPv6 host literals in net/url
• BZ - 2456336 - CVE-2026-32282 golang: internal/syscall/unix: Root.Chmod can follow symlinks out of the root
• BZ - 2456338 - CVE-2026-32283 crypto/tls: golang: Go crypto/tls: Denial of Service via multiple TLS 1.3 key update messages
• BZ - 2456339 - CVE-2026-32280 crypto/x509: crypto/tls: golang: Go: Denial of Service vulnerability in certificate chain building

CVEs

• CVE-2026-25679
• CVE-2026-32280
• CVE-2026-32282
• CVE-2026-32283

References

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