RHSA-2026:98981 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for mod_http2 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 mod_h2 Apache httpd module implements the HTTP2 protocol (h2+h2c) on top of libnghttp2 for httpd 2.4 servers.

Security Fix(es):

• httpd: Apache HTTP Server: mod_http2 use-after-free / wild write via shared session->bbtmp re-entrancy (CVE-2026-57941)
• httpd:2.4/mod_http2: mod_http2: httpd: Remote code execution in mod_http2 (CVE-2026-119618)

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 - 2544864 - CVE-2026-57941 httpd: Apache HTTP Server: mod_http2 use-after-free / wild write via shared session->bbtmp re-entrancy
• BZ - 2567318 - CVE-2026-119618 httpd:2.4/mod_http2: mod_http2: httpd: Remote code execution in mod_http2

CVEs

• CVE-2026-57941
• CVE-2026-119618

References

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