RHSA-2026:89749 — Security Advisory

An update for xz is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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.

XZ Utils is an integrated collection of user-space file compression utilities based on the Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain algorithm (LZMA), which performs lossless data compression. The algorithm provides a high compression ratio while keeping the decompression time short.

Security Fix(es):

• xz: XZ Utils: Denial of Service via buffer overflow in index decoding (CVE-2026-34743)

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.