RHSA-2026:38279MediumCVSS 3.9
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs Security Update
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
CVE-2026-15028 — libarchive: heap overflow OOB read while parsing a tar archive contains a PAX extended header
🎯 Affected products4
- Red Hat Hardened Images
- libarchive-main@aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
- libarchive-main@src as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
- libarchive-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 issue, avoid processing untrusted or unverified tar archives. Users should exercise caution when handling archives from unknown sources or those with unexpected content, as processing a specially crafted archive could trigger the vulnerability.
🔗 References (5)
- selfhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:38279
- externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-15028
- externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
- externalhttps://images.redhat.com/
- selfhttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_38279.json