RHSA-2026:20696 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for rsync 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 rsync utility enables the users to copy and synchronize files locally or across a network. Synchronization with rsync is fast because rsync only sends the differences in files over the network instead of sending whole files. The rsync utility is also used as a mirroring tool.

Security Fix(es):

• rsync: Rsync: Out of bounds array access via negative index (CVE-2025-10158)
• rsync: Rsync: Use-after-free vulnerability in extended attribute handling (CVE-2026-41035)

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 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 - 2415637 - CVE-2025-10158 rsync: Rsync: Out of bounds array access via negative index
• BZ - 2458898 - CVE-2026-41035 rsync: Rsync: Use-after-free vulnerability in extended attribute handling
• RHEL-174895 - Fix regression introduced with CVE-2024-12086 fix

CVEs

• CVE-2025-10158
• CVE-2026-41035

References

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