Security Advisories›RHSA-2026:2486

RHSA-2026:2486 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: fence-agents security update

Loading…

Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · February 11, 2026

Updated · November 1, 2026

Topic

An update for fence-agents is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service.

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 fence-agents packages provide a collection of scripts for handling remote power management for cluster devices. They allow failed or unreachable nodes to be forcibly restarted and removed from the cluster.

Security Fix(es):

  • pyasn1: pyasn1: Denial of Service due to memory exhaustion from malformed RELATIVE-OID (CVE-2026-23490)

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2026:2486 — Red Hat Security Advisory: fence-agents security update | PulseLinux