RHSA-2026:49944 — Security Advisory

An update for the container-tools:rhel8 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 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.

The container-tools module contains tools for working with containers, notably podman, buildah, skopeo, and runc.

Security Fix(es):

• crypto/x509: golang: Denial of Service due to excessive resource consumption via crafted certificate (CVE-2025-61729)

• golang: archive/zip: Excessive CPU consumption when building archive index in archive/zip (CVE-2025-61728)

• golang: net/url: Memory exhaustion in query parameter parsing in net/url (CVE-2025-61726)

• crypto/tls: Unexpected session resumption in crypto/tls (CVE-2025-68121)

• net/url: Incorrect parsing of IPv6 host literals in net/url (CVE-2026-25679)

• github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3: github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4: Go JOSE: Denial of Service via crafted JSON Web Encryption (JWE) object (CVE-2026-34986)

• crypto/x509: golang: Go crypto/x509: Denial of Service via inefficient certificate chain validation (CVE-2026-32281)

• 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)

• golang.org/x/crypto/ssh: golang.org/x/crypto/ssh: Denial of Service via crafted public key with excessive parameters (CVE-2026-39829)

• golang.org/x/crypto/ssh: golang.org/x/crypto/ssh: Denial of Service via resource leak from unsolicited SSH responses (CVE-2026-39830)

• golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/agent: golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/agent: Security bypass due to improper handling of key restrictions (CVE-2026-39832)

• golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/knownhosts: golang: golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/knownhosts: Revocation bypass via unchecked SignatureKey (CVE-2026-42508)

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

• [RHEL 8.8] Buildah specfile missing dumpspec test binary (JIRA:RHEL-170411)

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.