SB2026031274 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 update for buildah



SB2026031274 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 update for buildah

Published: March 12, 2026

Security Bulletin ID SB2026031274
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 4
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 4 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) UNIX symbolic link following (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-52881)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to a symlink following issue related to procfs write redirects. A local user can create a specially crafted symbolic link to a critical file on the system and overwrite it with privileges of the application.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in privilege escalation.


2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-58183)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists in archive/tar due to the tar.Reader does not set a maximum size on the number of sparse region data blocks in GNU tar pax 1.0 sparse files. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted archive to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


3) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-47913)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when handling SSH_AGENT_SUCCESS responses in ssh agent. A malicious server can send a specially crafted response to the ssh client and crash it. 


4) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-65637)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when using Entry.Writer() to log a single-line payload larger than 64KB without newline characters. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.