RHSA-2026:65336 — Security Advisory

An update for ignition 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.

Ignition is a utility used to manipulate systems during the initramfs. This includes partitioning disks, formatting partitions, writing files (regular files, systemd units, etc.), and configuring users. On first boot, Ignition reads its configuration from a source of truth (remote URL, network metadata service, hypervisor bridge, etc.) and applies the configuration.

Security Fix(es):

• net/mail: golang: net/mail: Denial of Service via pathological email address parsing (CVE-2026-42499)

• net/mail: golang: Go net/mail: Denial of Service via crafted email inputs (CVE-2026-39820)

• github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go: go.opentelemetry.io/otel/baggage: go.opentelemetry.io/otel/propagation: OpenTelemetry-Go: Denial of Service via oversized baggage headers (CVE-2026-41178)

• encoding/asn1: golang: Go encoding/asn1: Denial of Service via excessive recursion in Unmarshal (CVE-2026-33818)

• net/url: golang: golang net/url: Denial of Service from quadratic complexity in path resolution (CVE-2026-56860)

• net/http: golang: Go net/http: Unencrypted HTTP/2 connections vulnerable to Denial of Service (CVE-2026-56853)

• html/template: golang: Go html/template: Cross-Site Scripting via pathological input (CVE-2026-56858)

• crypto/tls: golang: Golang crypto/tls: Denial of Service via indefinite KeyUpdate messages (CVE-2026-56862)

• encoding/xml: golang: Go: Denial of Service via XML decoding recursion depth issue (CVE-2026-56859)

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.