RHSA-2026:97533 - 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):

• golang.org/x/crypto/ssh: golang.org/x/crypto/ssh: Denial of Service via crafted AES-GCM packet decoder inputs (CVE-2026-46597)

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

• When using `--mount` in `podman run` results can be inconsistent, especially on /var/tmp (JIRA:RHEL-154348)
• [RFE] SELinux confined users unable to start podman.socket systemd user service (JIRA:RHEL-132875)
• [RFE] Mounting of NFS Quadlet volume fails with permission denied (JIRA:RHEL-145863)
• [RFE] podman API socket to support TLS/mTLS (JIRA:RHEL-91221)
• Rebase podman to the latest upstream release [rhel-9.9] (JIRA:RHEL-168737)
• podman does not clean up all files and leaves orphaned files consuming disk space [rhel-9.9] (JIRA:RHEL-173976)
• [FJ9.8 Bug]: [REG]The "podman-remote save" command fails for rootless users. (JIRA:RHEL-186006)
• podman: rebase to 5.8.5 (JIRA:RHEL-212537)
• [FJ9.9 Bug]: [REG]The "podman rm" command can accidentally delete containers even though it is mounted by Buildah when used by a rootless user in remote. (JIRA:RHEL-211092)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Release Notes linked from 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 IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2480678 - CVE-2026-46597 golang.org/x/crypto/ssh: golang.org/x/crypto/ssh: Denial of Service via crafted AES-GCM packet decoder inputs
• RHEL-91221 - [RFE] podman API socket to support TLS/mTLS
• RHEL-168737 - Rebase podman to the latest upstream release [rhel-9.9]
• RHEL-212537 - podman: rebase to 5.8.5

CVEs

• CVE-2026-46597

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.9_release_notes/index