RHSA-2026:65886 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for image-builder is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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

A local binary for building customized OS artifacts such as VM images and OSTree commits. Uses osbuild under the hood.

Security Fix(es):

• crypto/x509: golang: Go crypto/x509: Denial of Service via inefficient certificate chain validation (CVE-2026-32281)
• crypto/x509: crypto/tls: golang: Go: Denial of Service vulnerability in certificate chain building (CVE-2026-32280)
• net/mail: golang: net/mail: Denial of Service via pathological email address parsing (CVE-2026-42499)
• net/mail: golang: Go net/mail: Denial of Service via crafted email inputs (CVE-2026-39820)
• net: golang: Go net package: Denial of Service via long CNAME response in LookupCNAME (CVE-2026-33811)
• golang.org/x/net/idna: golang: net/http: golang.org/x/net/idna: Privilege escalation via incorrect Punycode label processing (CVE-2026-39821)
• mime: golang: Golang MIME: Denial of Service via maliciously-crafted MIME header (CVE-2026-42504)
• encoding/asn1: golang: Go encoding/asn1: Denial of Service via excessive recursion in Unmarshal (CVE-2026-33818)
• net/url: golang: golang net/url: Denial of Service from quadratic complexity in path resolution (CVE-2026-56860)
• net/http: golang: Go net/http: Unencrypted HTTP/2 connections vulnerable to Denial of Service (CVE-2026-56853)
• html/template: golang: Go html/template: Cross-Site Scripting via pathological input (CVE-2026-56858)
• crypto/tls: golang: Golang crypto/tls: Denial of Service via indefinite KeyUpdate messages (CVE-2026-56862)
• encoding/xml: golang: Go: Denial of Service via XML decoding recursion depth issue (CVE-2026-56859)

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 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle 9.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Life Cycle 9.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Life Cycle 9.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Life Cycle 9.8 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2456333 - CVE-2026-32281 crypto/x509: golang: Go crypto/x509: Denial of Service via inefficient certificate chain validation
• BZ - 2456339 - CVE-2026-32280 crypto/x509: crypto/tls: golang: Go: Denial of Service vulnerability in certificate chain building
• BZ - 2467809 - CVE-2026-42499 net/mail: golang: net/mail: Denial of Service via pathological email address parsing
• BZ - 2467820 - CVE-2026-39820 net/mail: golang: Go net/mail: Denial of Service via crafted email inputs
• BZ - 2467822 - CVE-2026-33811 net: golang: Go net package: Denial of Service via long CNAME response in LookupCNAME
• 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
• BZ - 2484204 - CVE-2026-42504 mime: golang: Golang MIME: Denial of Service via maliciously-crafted MIME header
• BZ - 2515815 - CVE-2026-33818 encoding/asn1: golang: Go encoding/asn1: Denial of Service via excessive recursion in Unmarshal
• BZ - 2515820 - CVE-2026-56860 net/url: golang: golang net/url: Denial of Service from quadratic complexity in path resolution
• BZ - 2515827 - CVE-2026-56853 net/http: golang: Go net/http: Unencrypted HTTP/2 connections vulnerable to Denial of Service
• BZ - 2515838 - CVE-2026-56858 html/template: golang: Go html/template: Cross-Site Scripting via pathological input
• BZ - 2515839 - CVE-2026-56862 crypto/tls: golang: Golang crypto/tls: Denial of Service via indefinite KeyUpdate messages
• BZ - 2515840 - CVE-2026-56859 encoding/xml: golang: Go: Denial of Service via XML decoding recursion depth issue

CVEs

• CVE-2026-32280
• CVE-2026-32281
• CVE-2026-33811
• CVE-2026-33818
• CVE-2026-39820
• CVE-2026-39821
• CVE-2026-42499
• CVE-2026-42504
• CVE-2026-56853
• CVE-2026-56858
• CVE-2026-56859
• CVE-2026-56860
• CVE-2026-56862

References

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