RHSA-2026:29212 — Security Advisory

An update for postgresql 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.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system (DBMS).

Security Fix(es):

• postgresql: PostgreSQL: Operating system account hijack via symlink following in pg_basebackup and pg_rewind (CVE-2026-6475)

• postgresql: PostgreSQL libpq: Buffer overflow allows server superuser to overwrite client stack memory (CVE-2026-6477)

• postgresql: PostgreSQL: Credential recovery via covert timing channel in MD5 password comparison (CVE-2026-6478)

• postgresql: integer overflow can cause an undersized allocation and an out-of-bounds write (CVE-2026-6473)

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.