RHSA-2026:4477 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: vsftpd security update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · March 12, 2026

Updated · October 14, 2026

Topic

An update for vsftpd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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 vsftpd packages include a Very Secure File Transfer Protocol (FTP) daemon, which is used to serve files over a network.

Security Fix(es):

  • vsftpd: vsftpd: Denial of service via integer overflow in ls command parameter parsing (CVE-2025-14242)

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-2026:4477 — Red Hat Security Advisory: vsftpd security update | PulseLinux