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GNU tar's incremental restore path contains a TOCTOU race condition in dumpdir 'X' rename handling, allowing a local attacker with write access to a backed-up directory to redirect file operations outside the intended extraction root during a privileged restore. Successful exploitation can result in arbitrary file creation, rename, or overwrite - enabling privilege escalation on systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 through 10 and Red Hat Hardened Images. No public exploit is identified at time of analysis, and no CISA KEV listing exists; the CVSS score of 4.4 reflects the constrained attack prerequisites including a required race window and administrator-initiated restore.
GNU tar's --one-top-level extraction mode fails to confine hardlink targets to the designated top-level directory, allowing a crafted archive to plant hardlinks that escape the intended extraction boundary. When combined with a preexisting symbolic link already present under the working directory, an attacker who can induce a victim to extract a malicious archive may read or write files outside the intended extraction scope on systems running affected RHEL versions (6 through 10) and Red Hat Hardened Images. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and exploitation requires both user interaction and a specific environmental pre-condition, keeping real-world risk moderate despite GNU tar's ubiquitous deployment.
Out-of-bounds heap read in GNU Binutils linker when processing 32-bit XCOFF files allows local attackers to disclose heap memory and cause denial of service. Affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 through 10, Hardened Images, and OpenShift Container Platform 4. No public exploit or active exploitation identified at time of analysis; EPSS data unavailable.
Denial of service in dbus-broker allows a local attacker to crash the user session bus broker when file descriptor limits are exhausted. Affected products include Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9/10, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4, and Red Hat Hardened Images where dbus-broker is deployed. No active exploitation or public exploit code is known, and EPSS indicates low exploitation probability (0.11%).
Symlink-following vulnerability (CWE-59) in systemd-tmpfiles allows a local, low-privileged user to redirect privileged file write operations to an attacker-controlled path on affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems. The flaw resides in the path resolution logic within chase.c, where a safety check incorrectly treats all transitions away from the root user as inherently safe - failing to detect attacker-placed symlinks at tmpfiles.d target path components. Exploitation is constrained by high attack complexity requiring a specific non-default tmpfiles.d configuration, and no public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis.
Unbounded memory growth in libssh's SFTP client allows a malicious server to exhaust client-side memory by sending responses for unknown request IDs, resulting in a denial-of-service condition against any application using libssh for SFTP operations. Affected deployments include libssh as packaged in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, 9, 10, and Red Hat Hardened Images. No public exploit code and no active exploitation have been identified at time of analysis; the CVSS score of 5.3 (Medium) reflects the limited availability impact and the requirement that a victim client connect to an attacker-controlled server.
Memory exhaustion in libssh's SFTP server subsystem allows authenticated remote clients to degrade or crash the service by sending SSH_FXP_READ requests specifying an arbitrarily large read length, causing the server to allocate unbounded memory for each request. The CVSS vector (PR:L) confirms exploitation requires valid credentials, limiting the attack surface to authenticated SFTP users. No public exploit code and no CISA KEV listing have been identified at time of analysis, though the low complexity and network-accessible attack path make this a realistic insider or credential-abuse scenario.
Signal misdelivery in libssh's ProxyCommand handling allows a low-privileged local user to trigger a local denial of service affecting their entire accessible process tree. When fork() fails during ProxyCommand execution, the error return value of -1 is stored unchecked as a child process ID; at cleanup, libssh signals PID -1, which Linux interprets as a broadcast to all processes the caller has permission to signal. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, but the CVSS scope-changed metric (S:C) confirms that impact extends beyond the libssh component itself to co-located user processes.
CPU exhaustion via malformed SSH channel negotiation in libssh allows an authenticated remote peer to cause indefinite server-side looping and denial of service. By advertising a zero maximum packet size in SSH_MSG_CHANNEL_OPEN, the attacker forces subsequent channel writes into an infinite loop, fully consuming CPU on the affected host. This affects libssh as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, 9, and 10 and Red Hat Hardened Images; no public exploit or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis.
Out-of-bounds heap read in libssh exposes small amounts of server memory during GSSAPI key exchange, exploitable by remote unauthenticated attackers. When a client submits a Curve25519 public key shorter than the expected 32 bytes during server-side GSSAPI key exchange, libssh copies the key without validating its length, triggering a read beyond the intended buffer boundary. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis; exploitation is constrained to servers with GSSAPI key exchange explicitly enabled, which is a non-default configuration.
Use-after-free in the SSSD PAM responder crashes the authentication daemon when a local attacker manipulates YubiKey or smartcard contents during an authentication attempt on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 through 10. The primary realized impact is a denial of service - the PAM responder crash disrupts all authentication - but the underlying memory corruption also presents a difficult-to-exploit privilege escalation path. No public exploit code exists at time of analysis, and the CVSS vector (AV:L/AC:H/PR:H) reflects a tightly constrained local attack requiring high privileges and significant complexity, limiting realistic blast radius to insider-threat and physical-access scenarios.
Stack exhaustion in p11-kit's RPC server crashes the daemon and any dependent cryptographic services on affected Red Hat systems. The vulnerability exists in the PKCS#11 RPC message parsing layer, where two attribute-handling functions form a mutually-recursive call chain with no depth limit when processing nested CKA_WRAP_TEMPLATE, CKA_UNWRAP_TEMPLATE, and CKA_DERIVE_TEMPLATE attributes - allowing any local user or process with socket access to crash the server by sending a single crafted request. No public exploit or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis, and impact is limited to availability (denial of service) with no confidentiality or integrity consequence.
Heap use-after-free read in libblkid (util-linux) enables unauthenticated local attackers to crash udisks or leak root-process heap data by presenting a crafted block device image during nested partition probing. BSD, Minix, Solaris x86, and UnixWare partition table parsers cache raw pointers into a dynamically allocated partition array; when subsequent partition additions trigger array reallocation, those pointers become stale and dereference freed memory. Because udev and udisks invoke libblkid automatically as root on block-device hot-plug events, USB insertion alone is sufficient to trigger the flaw without any user interaction or authentication. No public exploit identified at time of analysis.
OpenSSH's GSSAPI authentication cleanup routine contains a heap out-of-bounds read (CWE-125) triggered when the auth-indicators array lacks a trailing NULL terminator, allowing a remote unauthenticated attacker to crash the SSH authentication path and deny SSH service availability. Exploitation is constrained by high attack complexity (AC:H) due to the non-default Kerberos/GSSAPI configuration requirement, limiting real-world exposure to a minority of deployments. No active exploitation is confirmed (not in CISA KEV), no public exploit code has been identified, and the impact is restricted to partial availability loss with no confidentiality or integrity consequence.
X11 forwarding session hijacking in OpenSSH enables a local unprivileged attacker sharing a Linux client host to intercept and partially manipulate the victim's forwarded X11 display traffic by squatting on the predictable abstract UNIX domain socket name before the SSH client creates it. Affected deployments span OpenSSH packages across Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 through 10, Red Hat Hardened Images, and OpenShift Container Platform 4. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, but successful exploitation yields high-confidence access to sensitive X11 session data including keystrokes, window contents, and clipboard material.
Client-side Denial of Service in OpenSSH's Diffie-Hellman Group Exchange implementation allows a malicious SSH server to crash connecting clients running in FIPS mode. When a victim initiates an SSH connection to an attacker-controlled server, the server sends crafted DH-GEX group parameters that trigger a double free (CWE-415) during FIPS known-group validation, terminating the client process. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV; however, the constraint that only FIPS-mode clients are affected limits real-world impact to regulated or government environments.
Insufficient authorization in the Katello ContentUploadsController within Red Hat Satellite 6 permits authenticated users holding only the edit_products permission to query content metadata for repositories belonging to products they have no rights to manage. The flaw, rooted in a missing ActiveRecord scope on repository lookup, allows cross-product content-existence enumeration via the content-upload API - but explicitly does not permit modification, import, or publication of content. No public exploit exists and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV; risk is bounded by the authentication requirement and the limited read-only impact.
Use-after-free memory corruption in GnuTLS's PKCS#11 PIN management function `gnutls_pkcs11_token_set_pin` enables a local low-privileged attacker to crash the process and potentially corrupt memory on systems where PKCS#11 tokens are deployed without a protected authentication path. Affected deployments span Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 through 10, Red Hat Hardened Images, and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4, as confirmed by Red Hat (reporter) and covered under GnuTLS upstream advisory GNUTLS-SA-2026-04-29-9. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and the vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Heap out-of-bounds read in MIT krb5's LDAP KDB plugin allows a compromised or malicious LDAP backend to crash the KDC or kadmind process, or leak heap memory. The flaw exists in berval2tl_data() within libkdb_ldap and is triggered when the LDAP server returns a krbExtraData attribute with bv_len less than 2, causing an unsigned integer underflow that drives a memcpy of up to 65,534 bytes from a near-zero-length source buffer. Exploitation requires prior control of the LDAP KDB backend server (PR:H, AC:H), constraining real-world risk to insider or supply-chain threat scenarios; no public exploit or CISA KEV listing exists at time of analysis.
GnuTLS's PKCS#7 padding validation during decryption is not implemented as a constant-time operation, creating a timing side-channel (CWE-208) that remote unauthenticated attackers can exploit to infer padding byte values on CBC-mode cipher suites. Affected deployments include GnuTLS as packaged across Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 through 10, Red Hat Hardened Images, and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4. Red Hat has issued patch RHSA-2026:20613; no active exploitation is confirmed in CISA KEV, and no public exploit code has been identified, but the network-reachable, no-auth-required attack surface warrants patching on systems handling sensitive encrypted traffic.
Memory corruption via an off-by-one error in GnuTLS PKCS#12 bag element handling exposes any application using GnuTLS to remote unauthenticated denial of service - and potentially unspecified further impact - when a crafted PKCS#12 structure is parsed. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) confirms exploitation requires no authentication, no user interaction, and no elevated complexity, making internet-exposed services that parse client-supplied PKCS#12 inputs the primary risk surface. No public exploit code exists and the vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog at time of analysis.
GnuTLS with OCSP verification enabled incorrectly accepts revoked server certificates when presented with specially crafted multi-record OCSP responses during TLS handshakes, allowing attackers to bypass certificate revocation checks and establish connections to compromised servers. The vulnerability requires high attack complexity and specific OCSP configuration, affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6-10, Red Hat Hardened Images, and OpenShift Container Platform 4. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been identified at the time of analysis.
The readelf utility in binutils is vulnerable to denial of service through two distinct flaws triggered by maliciously crafted ELF files: a resource exhaustion vulnerability (CWE-400) causing out-of-memory conditions and a null pointer dereference (CWE-476) causing segmentation faults. Both vulnerabilities require local access and user interaction to open a malicious file, resulting in the readelf utility crashing or becoming unresponsive. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been identified at the time of analysis.
The readelf utility in binutils is vulnerable to denial of service through null pointer dereference when processing specially crafted ELF files. A local attacker with limited privileges can trigger excessive resource consumption or program crashes by convincing a user to process a malicious ELF binary, affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, 8, and 10. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been confirmed at this time.
GNU tar's incremental restore path contains a TOCTOU race condition in dumpdir 'X' rename handling, allowing a local attacker with write access to a backed-up directory to redirect file operations outside the intended extraction root during a privileged restore. Successful exploitation can result in arbitrary file creation, rename, or overwrite - enabling privilege escalation on systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 through 10 and Red Hat Hardened Images. No public exploit is identified at time of analysis, and no CISA KEV listing exists; the CVSS score of 4.4 reflects the constrained attack prerequisites including a required race window and administrator-initiated restore.
GNU tar's --one-top-level extraction mode fails to confine hardlink targets to the designated top-level directory, allowing a crafted archive to plant hardlinks that escape the intended extraction boundary. When combined with a preexisting symbolic link already present under the working directory, an attacker who can induce a victim to extract a malicious archive may read or write files outside the intended extraction scope on systems running affected RHEL versions (6 through 10) and Red Hat Hardened Images. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and exploitation requires both user interaction and a specific environmental pre-condition, keeping real-world risk moderate despite GNU tar's ubiquitous deployment.
Out-of-bounds heap read in GNU Binutils linker when processing 32-bit XCOFF files allows local attackers to disclose heap memory and cause denial of service. Affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 through 10, Hardened Images, and OpenShift Container Platform 4. No public exploit or active exploitation identified at time of analysis; EPSS data unavailable.
Denial of service in dbus-broker allows a local attacker to crash the user session bus broker when file descriptor limits are exhausted. Affected products include Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9/10, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4, and Red Hat Hardened Images where dbus-broker is deployed. No active exploitation or public exploit code is known, and EPSS indicates low exploitation probability (0.11%).
Symlink-following vulnerability (CWE-59) in systemd-tmpfiles allows a local, low-privileged user to redirect privileged file write operations to an attacker-controlled path on affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems. The flaw resides in the path resolution logic within chase.c, where a safety check incorrectly treats all transitions away from the root user as inherently safe - failing to detect attacker-placed symlinks at tmpfiles.d target path components. Exploitation is constrained by high attack complexity requiring a specific non-default tmpfiles.d configuration, and no public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis.
Unbounded memory growth in libssh's SFTP client allows a malicious server to exhaust client-side memory by sending responses for unknown request IDs, resulting in a denial-of-service condition against any application using libssh for SFTP operations. Affected deployments include libssh as packaged in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, 9, 10, and Red Hat Hardened Images. No public exploit code and no active exploitation have been identified at time of analysis; the CVSS score of 5.3 (Medium) reflects the limited availability impact and the requirement that a victim client connect to an attacker-controlled server.
Memory exhaustion in libssh's SFTP server subsystem allows authenticated remote clients to degrade or crash the service by sending SSH_FXP_READ requests specifying an arbitrarily large read length, causing the server to allocate unbounded memory for each request. The CVSS vector (PR:L) confirms exploitation requires valid credentials, limiting the attack surface to authenticated SFTP users. No public exploit code and no CISA KEV listing have been identified at time of analysis, though the low complexity and network-accessible attack path make this a realistic insider or credential-abuse scenario.
Signal misdelivery in libssh's ProxyCommand handling allows a low-privileged local user to trigger a local denial of service affecting their entire accessible process tree. When fork() fails during ProxyCommand execution, the error return value of -1 is stored unchecked as a child process ID; at cleanup, libssh signals PID -1, which Linux interprets as a broadcast to all processes the caller has permission to signal. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, but the CVSS scope-changed metric (S:C) confirms that impact extends beyond the libssh component itself to co-located user processes.
CPU exhaustion via malformed SSH channel negotiation in libssh allows an authenticated remote peer to cause indefinite server-side looping and denial of service. By advertising a zero maximum packet size in SSH_MSG_CHANNEL_OPEN, the attacker forces subsequent channel writes into an infinite loop, fully consuming CPU on the affected host. This affects libssh as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, 9, and 10 and Red Hat Hardened Images; no public exploit or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis.
Out-of-bounds heap read in libssh exposes small amounts of server memory during GSSAPI key exchange, exploitable by remote unauthenticated attackers. When a client submits a Curve25519 public key shorter than the expected 32 bytes during server-side GSSAPI key exchange, libssh copies the key without validating its length, triggering a read beyond the intended buffer boundary. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis; exploitation is constrained to servers with GSSAPI key exchange explicitly enabled, which is a non-default configuration.
Use-after-free in the SSSD PAM responder crashes the authentication daemon when a local attacker manipulates YubiKey or smartcard contents during an authentication attempt on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 through 10. The primary realized impact is a denial of service - the PAM responder crash disrupts all authentication - but the underlying memory corruption also presents a difficult-to-exploit privilege escalation path. No public exploit code exists at time of analysis, and the CVSS vector (AV:L/AC:H/PR:H) reflects a tightly constrained local attack requiring high privileges and significant complexity, limiting realistic blast radius to insider-threat and physical-access scenarios.
Stack exhaustion in p11-kit's RPC server crashes the daemon and any dependent cryptographic services on affected Red Hat systems. The vulnerability exists in the PKCS#11 RPC message parsing layer, where two attribute-handling functions form a mutually-recursive call chain with no depth limit when processing nested CKA_WRAP_TEMPLATE, CKA_UNWRAP_TEMPLATE, and CKA_DERIVE_TEMPLATE attributes - allowing any local user or process with socket access to crash the server by sending a single crafted request. No public exploit or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis, and impact is limited to availability (denial of service) with no confidentiality or integrity consequence.
Heap use-after-free read in libblkid (util-linux) enables unauthenticated local attackers to crash udisks or leak root-process heap data by presenting a crafted block device image during nested partition probing. BSD, Minix, Solaris x86, and UnixWare partition table parsers cache raw pointers into a dynamically allocated partition array; when subsequent partition additions trigger array reallocation, those pointers become stale and dereference freed memory. Because udev and udisks invoke libblkid automatically as root on block-device hot-plug events, USB insertion alone is sufficient to trigger the flaw without any user interaction or authentication. No public exploit identified at time of analysis.
OpenSSH's GSSAPI authentication cleanup routine contains a heap out-of-bounds read (CWE-125) triggered when the auth-indicators array lacks a trailing NULL terminator, allowing a remote unauthenticated attacker to crash the SSH authentication path and deny SSH service availability. Exploitation is constrained by high attack complexity (AC:H) due to the non-default Kerberos/GSSAPI configuration requirement, limiting real-world exposure to a minority of deployments. No active exploitation is confirmed (not in CISA KEV), no public exploit code has been identified, and the impact is restricted to partial availability loss with no confidentiality or integrity consequence.
X11 forwarding session hijacking in OpenSSH enables a local unprivileged attacker sharing a Linux client host to intercept and partially manipulate the victim's forwarded X11 display traffic by squatting on the predictable abstract UNIX domain socket name before the SSH client creates it. Affected deployments span OpenSSH packages across Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 through 10, Red Hat Hardened Images, and OpenShift Container Platform 4. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, but successful exploitation yields high-confidence access to sensitive X11 session data including keystrokes, window contents, and clipboard material.
Client-side Denial of Service in OpenSSH's Diffie-Hellman Group Exchange implementation allows a malicious SSH server to crash connecting clients running in FIPS mode. When a victim initiates an SSH connection to an attacker-controlled server, the server sends crafted DH-GEX group parameters that trigger a double free (CWE-415) during FIPS known-group validation, terminating the client process. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV; however, the constraint that only FIPS-mode clients are affected limits real-world impact to regulated or government environments.
Insufficient authorization in the Katello ContentUploadsController within Red Hat Satellite 6 permits authenticated users holding only the edit_products permission to query content metadata for repositories belonging to products they have no rights to manage. The flaw, rooted in a missing ActiveRecord scope on repository lookup, allows cross-product content-existence enumeration via the content-upload API - but explicitly does not permit modification, import, or publication of content. No public exploit exists and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV; risk is bounded by the authentication requirement and the limited read-only impact.
Use-after-free memory corruption in GnuTLS's PKCS#11 PIN management function `gnutls_pkcs11_token_set_pin` enables a local low-privileged attacker to crash the process and potentially corrupt memory on systems where PKCS#11 tokens are deployed without a protected authentication path. Affected deployments span Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 through 10, Red Hat Hardened Images, and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4, as confirmed by Red Hat (reporter) and covered under GnuTLS upstream advisory GNUTLS-SA-2026-04-29-9. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and the vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Heap out-of-bounds read in MIT krb5's LDAP KDB plugin allows a compromised or malicious LDAP backend to crash the KDC or kadmind process, or leak heap memory. The flaw exists in berval2tl_data() within libkdb_ldap and is triggered when the LDAP server returns a krbExtraData attribute with bv_len less than 2, causing an unsigned integer underflow that drives a memcpy of up to 65,534 bytes from a near-zero-length source buffer. Exploitation requires prior control of the LDAP KDB backend server (PR:H, AC:H), constraining real-world risk to insider or supply-chain threat scenarios; no public exploit or CISA KEV listing exists at time of analysis.
GnuTLS's PKCS#7 padding validation during decryption is not implemented as a constant-time operation, creating a timing side-channel (CWE-208) that remote unauthenticated attackers can exploit to infer padding byte values on CBC-mode cipher suites. Affected deployments include GnuTLS as packaged across Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 through 10, Red Hat Hardened Images, and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4. Red Hat has issued patch RHSA-2026:20613; no active exploitation is confirmed in CISA KEV, and no public exploit code has been identified, but the network-reachable, no-auth-required attack surface warrants patching on systems handling sensitive encrypted traffic.
Memory corruption via an off-by-one error in GnuTLS PKCS#12 bag element handling exposes any application using GnuTLS to remote unauthenticated denial of service - and potentially unspecified further impact - when a crafted PKCS#12 structure is parsed. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) confirms exploitation requires no authentication, no user interaction, and no elevated complexity, making internet-exposed services that parse client-supplied PKCS#12 inputs the primary risk surface. No public exploit code exists and the vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog at time of analysis.
GnuTLS with OCSP verification enabled incorrectly accepts revoked server certificates when presented with specially crafted multi-record OCSP responses during TLS handshakes, allowing attackers to bypass certificate revocation checks and establish connections to compromised servers. The vulnerability requires high attack complexity and specific OCSP configuration, affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6-10, Red Hat Hardened Images, and OpenShift Container Platform 4. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been identified at the time of analysis.
The readelf utility in binutils is vulnerable to denial of service through two distinct flaws triggered by maliciously crafted ELF files: a resource exhaustion vulnerability (CWE-400) causing out-of-memory conditions and a null pointer dereference (CWE-476) causing segmentation faults. Both vulnerabilities require local access and user interaction to open a malicious file, resulting in the readelf utility crashing or becoming unresponsive. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been identified at the time of analysis.
The readelf utility in binutils is vulnerable to denial of service through null pointer dereference when processing specially crafted ELF files. A local attacker with limited privileges can trigger excessive resource consumption or program crashes by convincing a user to process a malicious ELF binary, affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, 8, and 10. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been confirmed at this time.