RHSA-2026:41176HighCVSS 7.5

Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs bug fix and enhancement update

Published
July 17, 2026
Last Modified
November 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

CVE-2026-63495 — libevent: Libevent: Remote denial of service via unbounded memory accumulation in WebSocket server

🎯 Affected products8

  • Red Hat Hardened Images
  • libevent-0:2.1.12-19.hum1@aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
  • libevent-0:2.1.12-19.hum1@src as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
  • libevent-0:2.1.12-19.hum1@x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
  • libevent-devel-0:2.1.12-19.hum1@aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
  • libevent-devel-0:2.1.12-19.hum1@x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
  • libevent-doc-0:2.1.12-19.hum1@noarch@public-hummingbird-aarch64-rpms as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
  • libevent-doc-0:2.1.12-19.hum1@noarch@public-hummingbird-x86_64-rpms 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, disable any services that expose the libevent WebSocket server if its functionality is not required. If the libevent WebSocket server is necessary, restrict network access to trusted clients or networks by implementing appropriate firewall rules to limit exposure.

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