RHSA-2026:67157 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for sg3_utils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle 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 sg3_utils packages provide command-line utilities for devices that use the Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) command sets.

Security Fix(es):

• sg3_utils: sg3_utils: arbitrary command execution via udev property injection in sg_inq --export (CVE-2026-16313)

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

• sg_inq output conformance for SCSI name string and ATA fields [rhel-7-els] (JIRA:RHEL-188163)

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 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 2502845 - CVE-2026-16313 sg3_utils: sg3_utils: arbitrary command execution via udev property injection in sg_inq --export

CVEs

• CVE-2026-16313

References

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