RHSA-2026:48604 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: fence-agents security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · July 30, 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 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On.
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):
- httplib2: httplib2: Denial of Service via unbounded decompression of HTTP response bodies (CVE-2026-59939)
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.