Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs bug fix and enhancement update
Description
Red Hat has issued a security advisory for Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs, including updates to libarchive and related utilities. The advisory addresses CVE-2026-17591, a low severity vulnerability classified under CWE-416 (use-after-free). The update provides bug fixes and enhancements for several RPM packages across multiple architectures. No known exploits are reported in the wild. The advisory includes updated package versions to mitigate the issue.
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Technical Analysis
This Red Hat security advisory (RHSA-2026:77775) addresses a vulnerability identified as CVE-2026-17591 affecting Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs, specifically components of libarchive such as bsdcat, bsdcpio, bsdtar, bsdunzip, and libarchive-devel. The vulnerability is categorized as CWE-416 (use-after-free). The advisory provides updated RPM packages (version 3.8.9-2.1.hum1) for multiple architectures (aarch64, s390x, x86_64) to fix the issue. The update is available through Red Hat's public repositories and includes source packages. No exploits are known to be active in the wild at this time.
Potential Impact
The vulnerability is rated as low severity and relates to a use-after-free condition, which could potentially lead to memory corruption or crashes. However, no active exploitation has been reported, and the impact is considered limited based on the advisory.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated RPM packages that fix the vulnerability. Users of Red Hat Hardened Images should apply the provided updates to the affected packages (libarchive and related utilities) as per the instructions on https://images.redhat.com/. No additional mitigation steps are indicated by the vendor.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2026:77775
- Cve Count
- 1
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 6ad3f4d52cdf04f656656c9c
Added to database: 10/17/2026, 22:21:09 UTC
Last enriched: 10/17/2026, 22:31:51 UTC
Last updated: 10/18/2026, 01:48:08 UTC
Views: 3
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