RHSA-2026:57845 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat build of MicroShift release 4.16.69 is now available with updates
to packages and images that include a security update.

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

Red Hat build of MicroShift is Red Hat's light-weight Kubernetes
orchestration solution designed for edge device deployments and is built
from the edge capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
MicroShift is an application that is deployed on top of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux devices at the edge, providing an efficient way to operate
single-node clusters in these low-resource environments.

This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat build of MicroShift
4.16.69. Read the following advisory for the container images for this
release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:56854

Security Fix(es):

• net/http/internal/http2: golang: golang.org/x/net: Go HTTP/2: Denial of

Service via malformed SETTINGS_MAX_FRAME_SIZE frame (CVE-2026-33814)

• net/mail: golang: Go net/mail: Denial of Service via crafted email inputs

(CVE-2026-39820)

• golang.org/x/net/idna: golang: net/http: golang.org/x/net/idna: Privilege

escalation via incorrect Punycode label processing (CVE-2026-39821)

• net/mail: golang: net/mail: Denial of Service via pathological email

address parsing (CVE-2026-42499)

All Red Hat build of MicroShift 4.16 users are advised to use these updated
packages and images when they are available in the RPM repository.

Solution

For MicroShift 4.16, read the following documentation for important
instructions on how to install the latest RPMs and fully apply this
asynchronous errata update:

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_build_of_microshift/4.16/html/red_hat_build_of_microshift_release_notes/index

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.16 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.16 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.16 for RHEL 9 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2467809 - CVE-2026-42499 net/mail: golang: net/mail: Denial of Service via pathological email address parsing
• BZ - 2467815 - CVE-2026-33814 net/http/internal/http2: golang: golang.org/x/net: Go HTTP/2: Denial of Service via malformed SETTINGS_MAX_FRAME_SIZE frame
• BZ - 2467820 - CVE-2026-39820 net/mail: golang: Go net/mail: Denial of Service via crafted email inputs
• BZ - 2480756 - CVE-2026-39821 golang.org/x/net/idna: golang: net/http: golang.org/x/net/idna: Privilege escalation via incorrect Punycode label processing

CVEs

• CVE-2026-33814
• CVE-2026-39820
• CVE-2026-39821
• CVE-2026-42499

References

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