RHSA-2026:98554 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for podman 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 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):

• encoding/asn1: golang: Go encoding/asn1: Denial of Service via excessive recursion in Unmarshal (CVE-2026-33818)
• net/url: golang: golang net/url: Denial of Service from quadratic complexity in path resolution (CVE-2026-56860)
• net/http: golang: Go net/http: Unencrypted HTTP/2 connections vulnerable to Denial of Service (CVE-2026-56853)
• html/template: golang: Go html/template: Cross-Site Scripting via pathological input (CVE-2026-56858)
• crypto/tls: golang: Golang crypto/tls: Denial of Service via indefinite KeyUpdate messages (CVE-2026-56862)
• encoding/xml: golang: Go: Denial of Service via XML decoding recursion depth issue (CVE-2026-56859)
• github.com/moby/go-archive: 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

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

Fixes

• 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
• BZ - 2518147 - CVE-2026-17106 github.com/moby/go-archive: moby/go-archive: Arbitrary file write via link following in tar extraction

CVEs

• CVE-2026-17106
• CVE-2026-33818
• CVE-2026-56853
• CVE-2026-56858
• CVE-2026-56859
• CVE-2026-56860
• CVE-2026-56862

References

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