RHSA-2026:8492 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for libarchive is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.

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 libarchive programming library can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including GNU tar, cpio, and ISO 9660 CD-ROM images. Libarchive is used notably in the bsdtar utility, scripting language bindings such as python-libarchive, and several popular desktop file managers.

Security Fix(es):

• libarchive: libarchive: Information disclosure via heap out-of-bounds read in RAR archive processing (CVE-2026-4424)

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 10 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 10 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 10 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 10 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2449006 - CVE-2026-4424 libarchive: libarchive: Information disclosure via heap out-of-bounds read in RAR archive processing

CVEs

• CVE-2026-4424

References

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