RHSA-2026:17040 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for podman is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support.

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 podman tool manages pods, container images, and containers. It is part of the libpod library, which is for applications that use container pods. Container pods is a concept in Kubernetes.

Security Fix(es):

• crypto/x509: golang: Denial of Service due to excessive resource consumption via crafted certificate (CVE-2025-61729)
• golang: archive/zip: Excessive CPU consumption when building archive index in archive/zip (CVE-2025-61728)
• golang: net/url: Memory exhaustion in query parameter parsing in net/url (CVE-2025-61726)
• crypto/tls: Unexpected session resumption in crypto/tls (CVE-2025-68121)
• net/url: Incorrect parsing of IPv6 host literals in net/url (CVE-2026-25679)
• github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3: github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4: Go JOSE: Denial of Service via crafted JSON Web Encryption (JWE) object (CVE-2026-34986)

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 - Extended Update Support 10.0 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 10.0 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 10.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 10.0 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 10.0 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 10.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 10.0 s390x
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 10.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 10.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 10.0 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - 4 years of support 10.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - 4 years of updates 10.0 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2418462 - CVE-2025-61729 crypto/x509: golang: Denial of Service due to excessive resource consumption via crafted certificate
• BZ - 2434431 - CVE-2025-61728 golang: archive/zip: Excessive CPU consumption when building archive index in archive/zip
• BZ - 2434432 - CVE-2025-61726 golang: net/url: Memory exhaustion in query parameter parsing in net/url
• BZ - 2437111 - CVE-2025-68121 crypto/tls: crypto/tls: Incorrect certificate validation during TLS session resumption
• BZ - 2445356 - CVE-2026-25679 net/url: Incorrect parsing of IPv6 host literals in net/url
• BZ - 2455470 - CVE-2026-34986 github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3: github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4: Go JOSE: Denial of Service via crafted JSON Web Encryption (JWE) object

CVEs

• CVE-2025-61726
• CVE-2025-61728
• CVE-2025-61729
• CVE-2025-68121
• CVE-2026-25679
• CVE-2026-34986

References

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