RHSA-2026:69961 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for podman 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

The podman tool manages pods, container images, and containers. It is part of the libpod library, which is for applications that use container pods. Container pods is a concept in Kubernetes.

Security Fix(es):

• podman: Go encoding/asn1: Denial of Service via excessive recursion in Unmarshal (CVE-2026-33818)
• podman: golang net/url: Denial of Service from quadratic complexity in path resolution (CVE-2026-56860)
• podman: Go: Denial of Service via XML decoding recursion depth issue (CVE-2026-56859)
• podman: Go html/template: Cross-Site Scripting via pathological input (CVE-2026-56858)
• podman: Golang crypto/tls: Denial of Service via indefinite KeyUpdate messages (CVE-2026-56862)
• podman: Quadlet install --replace non-truncating write retains removed host-access directives (CVE-2026-19730)
• podman: golang.org/x/crypto/ssh: Denial of Service via resource leak from unsolicited SSH responses (CVE-2026-39830)
• podman: Go net/http: Unencrypted HTTP/2 connections vulnerable to Denial of Service (CVE-2026-56853)
• podman: moby/go-archive: Arbitrary file write via link following in tar extraction (CVE-2026-17106)

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

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, 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 - 2480684 - CVE-2026-39830 golang.org/x/crypto/ssh: golang.org/x/crypto/ssh: Denial of Service via resource leak from unsolicited SSH responses
• BZ - 2508234 - CVE-2026-19730 podman: podman: Quadlet install --replace non-truncating write retains removed host-access directives
• 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-2026-17106
• CVE-2026-19730
• CVE-2026-33818
• CVE-2026-39830
• CVE-2026-56853
• CVE-2026-56858
• CVE-2026-56859
• CVE-2026-56860
• CVE-2026-56862

References

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