RHSA-2026:98481 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for lrzsz 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

Lrzsz (consisting of lrz and lsz) is a cosmetically modified zmodem/ymodem/xmodem package built from the public-domain version of the rzsz package. Lrzsz was created to provide a working GNU copylefted Zmodem solution for Linux systems.

Security Fix(es):

• lrzsz: lrzsz: Arbitrary file overwrite via absolute path traversal in restricted mode (CVE-2026-105840)
• lrzsz: lrzsz: Arbitrary command execution via crafted file names in pipe mode (CVE-2026-105841)

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

• lrzsz: segfault with -s [rhel-9.9.z] (JIRA:RHEL-282118)

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 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 - 2546590 - CVE-2026-105840 lrzsz: lrzsz: Arbitrary file overwrite via absolute path traversal in restricted mode
• BZ - 2546595 - CVE-2026-105841 lrzsz: lrzsz: Arbitrary command execution via crafted file names in pipe mode

CVEs

• CVE-2026-105840
• CVE-2026-105841

References

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