Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2026:59831 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2026-09-03
Updated:
2026-09-03

RHSA-2026:59831 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.97 bug fix and security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.12.97 is now available with
updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements.

This release includes a security update for Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform 4.12.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Low. 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 OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing
Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private
cloud deployments.

This advisory contains the container images for Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform 4.12.97. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this
release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:59830

Space precludes documenting all of the container images in this advisory.
See the following Release Notes documentation, which will be updated
shortly for this release, for details about these changes:

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.12/html/release_notes

Security Fix(es):

None

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.

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 users are advised to upgrade to these
updated packages and images when they are available in the appropriate
release channel. To check for available updates, use the OpenShift CLI (oc)
or web console. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available at
https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.12/html-single/updating_clusters/index#updating-cluster-within-minor.

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 see the following documentation,
which will be updated shortly for this release, for important instructions
on how to upgrade your cluster and fully apply this asynchronous errata
update:

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.12/html/release_notes

You may download the oc tool and use it to inspect release image metadata
for x86_64 architecture. The image digest may be found at
https://quay.io/repository/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release?tab=tags.

The sha value for the release is as follows:

(For x86_64 architecture)
The image digest is
sha256:610f344ba2a621c2205f79032b10cf06865ee89d2ad8250e96a8d83b4d49f310

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 users are advised to upgrade to these
updated packages and images when they are available in the appropriate
release channel. To check for available updates, use the OpenShift CLI (oc)
or web console. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available at
https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.12/html-single/updating_clusters/index#updating-cluster-within-minor.

Affected Products

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 for RHEL 9 x86_64
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 for RHEL 8 x86_64
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.12 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.12 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.12 for RHEL 9 s390x
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.12 for RHEL 8 s390x
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.12 for RHEL 9 aarch64
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.12 for RHEL 8 aarch64

Fixes

  • BZ - 2401209 - CVE-2025-11234 qemu-kvm: VNC WebSocket handshake use-after-free
  • BZ - 2445763 - CVE-2026-3833 gnutls: GnuTLS: Policy bypass due to case-sensitive nameConstraints comparison
  • BZ - 2447317 - CVE-2026-1933 samba: Missing access check on reparse point operations
  • BZ - 2447318 - CVE-2026-2340 samba: vfs_worm does not block directory modification
  • BZ - 2447319 - CVE-2026-3012 samba: group policy certificate enrollment uses http:// without validation
  • BZ - 2450505 - CVE-2026-29111 systemd: systemd: Arbitrary code execution or Denial of Service via spurious IPC API call data
  • BZ - 2450624 - CVE-2026-33845 gnutls: GnuTLS: Denial of Service via DTLS zero-length fragment
  • BZ - 2450625 - CVE-2026-33846 gnutls: GnuTLS: Denial of Service via heap buffer overflow in DTLS handshake fragment reassembly
  • BZ - 2451615 - CVE-2026-4878 libcap: libcap: Privilege escalation via TOCTOU race condition in cap_set_file()
  • BZ - 2455400 - CVE-2026-34982 vim: arbitrary command execution via modeline sandbox bypass
  • BZ - 2455542 - CVE-2026-35177 vim: zip.vim: Vim zip.vim plugin: Arbitrary file overwrite via path traversal bypass
  • BZ - 2456314 - CVE-2026-28390 openssl: OpenSSL: Denial of Service due to NULL pointer dereference in CMS EnvelopedData processing
  • BZ - 2458898 - CVE-2026-41035 rsync: Rsync: Use-after-free vulnerability in extended attribute handling
  • BZ - 2459853 - CVE-2026-5450 glibc: glibc: Heap Buffer Overflow in `scanf` with `%mc` format specifier and large width
  • BZ - 2460425 - CVE-2026-48864 libsolv: Heap buffer overflow in libsolv repopagestore via unchecked decompression of malicious .solv page data
  • BZ - 2461614 - CVE-2026-41411 vim: Vim: Command injection allows arbitrary code execution via malicious tag files
  • BZ - 2467015 - CVE-2026-43112 kernel: fs/smb/client: fix out-of-bounds read in cifs_sanitize_prepath
  • BZ - 2467279 - CVE-2026-42009 gnutls: gnutls: Denial of Service via DTLS packet reordering vulnerability
  • BZ - 2467289 - CVE-2026-42010 gnutls: gnutls: Authentication Bypass via NUL Character in Username
  • BZ - 2467437 - CVE-2026-42011 gnutls: gnutls: Security bypass due to incorrect name constraint handling
  • BZ - 2467448 - CVE-2026-42013 gnutls: gnutls: Certificate validation bypass due to oversized Subject Alternative Name
  • BZ - 2467450 - CVE-2026-5260 gnutls: gnutls: Information disclosure via heap overread in RSA key exchange
  • BZ - 2477784 - CVE-2025-54518 kernel: xen: AMD Zen 2 Processors: Privilege escalation via improper CPU cache isolation
  • BZ - 2477915 - CVE-2026-46483 vim: command injection when decompressing .tgz archives
  • BZ - 2479762 - CVE-2026-4408 samba: Remote Code Execution in SAMR
  • BZ - 2481898 - CVE-2026-45447 openssl: Heap Use-After-Free in OpenSSL PKCS7_verify()
  • BZ - 2496556 - CVE-2026-14474 sssd: sssd: sudo LDAP provider searches entire directory tree for sudoRole objects by default, enabling privilege escalation
  • BZ - 2496581 - CVE-2026-14476 sssd: sssd: GPO cache path traversal via unsanitized gPCFileSysPath allows Kerberos authentication bypass

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.