RHSA-2026:28038 — Security Advisory

An update for gvisor-tap-vsock is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 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.

A replacement for libslirp and VPNKit, written in pure Go. It is based on the network stack of gVisor. Compared to libslirp, gvisor-tap-vsock brings a configurable DNS server and dynamic port forwarding.

Security Fix(es):

• crypto/x509: Incorrect enforcement of email constraints in crypto/x509 (CVE-2026-27137)

• golang: internal/syscall/unix: Root.Chmod can follow symlinks out of the root (CVE-2026-32282)

• crypto/tls: golang: Go crypto/tls: Denial of Service via multiple TLS 1.3 key update messages (CVE-2026-32283)

• crypto/x509: crypto/tls: golang: Go: Denial of Service vulnerability in certificate chain building (CVE-2026-32280)

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.