RHSA-2026:16736HighCVSS 9.1
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs bug fix and enhancement update
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
CVE-2026-7598 — libssh2: integer overflow via large username or password arguments
🎯 Affected products5
- Red Hat Hardened Images
- rust-main@aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
- rust-main@noarch as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
- rust-main@src as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
- rust-main@x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
✅ Remediation
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://images.redhat.com/ Workaround: To mitigate this flaw, applications linked to the libssh2 library should be configured or updated to exclusively use public key authentication. Explicitly disabling password-based logins prevents the application from executing the vulnerable userauth_password function.
🔗 References (5)
- selfhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16736
- externalhttps://images.redhat.com/
- externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-7598
- externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
- selfhttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_16736.json