RHSA-2026:99164 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for libpcap is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.8 Extended Update Support.

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 libpcap packages provide a portable framework for low-level network monitoring. The libpcap library provides network statistics collection, security monitoring, and network debugging.

Security Fix(es):

• libpcap: libpcap: Denial of Service via infinite loop in BPF interpreter (CVE-2026-6554)

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 - Extended Update Support 9.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.8 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.8 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.8 s390x
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle 9.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Life Cycle 9.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Life Cycle 9.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Life Cycle 9.8 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2529091 - CVE-2026-6554 libpcap: libpcap: Denial of Service via infinite loop in BPF interpreter

CVEs

• CVE-2026-6554

References

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