Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 vulnerabilities
1,038 known vulnerabilities in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 from Red Hat. 1,038 are rated high or critical, and 6 have been exploited in real attacks. Each entry lists the affected versions and the release that fixes it, where the vendor has published one.
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- 7.0 High severity
Red Hat Hardened Images: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access
The X-mount.subdir option uses a detached-tree fast path on Linux 6.15 and later and passes the configured subdirectory to open_tree() with AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW. That flag does not stop intermediate symlink traversal or keep resolution inside the newly mounted
- 7.9 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Missing Release of File Descriptor or Handle after Effective Lifetime
The nsenter --join-cgroup option opens the target cgroup.procs file as root and leaves that file descriptor open across later namespace and credential changes and across execve(). Because the kernel checks later cgroup migrations using the credentials from the
- 8.8 High severity
gvfs: Heap-based Buffer Overflow
A flaw was found in the SFTP backend in gvfs. When mounting a share and reading a file, a malicious SFTP server can cause read_reply() to process a length that exceeds the size requested by the client. The function does not verify the server-provided length ag
- 7.0 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command
A flaw was found in rpm. A local attacker could supply a specially crafted `.gem` filename containing RPM macro syntax. When a user or automated workflow invokes `rpmuncompress -x` on this file, the macro expansion occurs during command construction. This allo
- 7.0 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Out-of-bounds Write
A flaw was found in GDB's STABS debug format parser. The read_member_functions() function in gdb/stabsread.c contains a linked list removal bug in the code that separates destructor and non-destructor member functions of C++ classes. The bug causes the destruc
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Build of Apache Camel 3.33.3.SP1: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
A flaw was found in RESTEasy's SourceProvider. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to perform an unauthenticated remote file read. By sending a specially crafted XML body with a DOCTYPE declaration referencing external entities to an endpoint
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Undertow is a flexible performant web server used in JBoss EAP and WildFly. A flaw was found in how Undertow handles WebSocket connections. Specifically, certain configuration limits like message buffer sizes and session timeouts cannot be adjusted and default
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size
A flaw was found in rsyslog. An unauthenticated remote attacker can trigger a heap buffer overflow in the RainerScript `replace()` function by sending specially crafted syslog messages. This vulnerability arises from an incorrect buffer size calculation during
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform…: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
A flaw was found in Undertow. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted WebSocket messages with permessage-deflate negotiated. This could lead to excessive memory consumption due to the PerMessageDeflateFunction.largerBuff
- 7.6 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input
A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in BlueZ, the Linux Bluetooth protocol stack. A remote user within Bluetooth radio range can send a specially crafted Extended Inquiry Response (EIR) packet that causes a buffer overflow when the target device
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command
A flaw was found in Emacs TRAMP. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability by processing maliciously crafted filenames. This occurs because TRAMP concatenates login arguments without proper sanitization, which are then passed to a local shell. Successf
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access
A flaw was found in sos clean, a utility within the sos package. This vulnerability allows a local attacker to perform arbitrary file creation or overwrite. By crafting a malicious tar archive, an attacker can exploit a path traversal issue during tar extracti
- 7.0 High severity
GIMP: Integer Overflow or Wraparound
A flaw was found in the file-pcx plugin in GIMP, affecting 32-bit builds only. When processing a PCX image file, the plugin calculates memory allocation sizes based on the image dimensions and the number of color planes. If a crafted file sets the number of pl
- 7.1 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Incorrect Authorization
NetworkManager did not apply the private_user restriction to the 802-1x.ca-path and phase2-ca-path directory-valued connection properties. This incomplete fix for CVE-2025-9615 allows an unprivileged local user to point a private WPA-Enterprise (802.1X) connec
- 8.8 High severity
WebKit: Use After Free
A flaw was found in WebKitGTK. Processing malicious web content can cause a use-after-free issue due to improper memory handling and result in memory corruption.
- 7.0 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Improper Control of Generation of Code
A vulnerability was found in RPM's rpmbuild tarball processing. When processing a crafted source archive, the getTarSpec() function in tools/rpmbuild.cc passes an attacker-controlled tar archive member name to rpmExpand() as part of a %{basename:...} macro exp
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
A flaw was found in FreeIPA. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit a vulnerability in the `/ipa/i18n_messages` endpoint by sending an arbitrarily large request body. This can cause the service to consume excessive memory, leading to memory exhaustion,
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
A flaw was found in FreeIPA. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending oversized form POST requests to the `/ipa/migration/migration.py` endpoint. This can force the migration handler to read attacker-controlled request bodie
- 8.7 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Use of Incorrectly-Resolved Name or Reference
A privilege escalation flaw was found in FreeIPA. The uniqueness constraint enforced on Kerberos principal name attributes in the 389-ds directory server does not properly account for equivalent representations of the same principal name, allowing a user with
- 8.1 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A flaw was found in FreeIPA. When a trust relationship is configured between FreeIPA and Active Directory, Active Directory users can bypass authentication for FreeIPA services, including the portal, SMB server, and LDAP directory. This is possible by imperson
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Integer Overflow or Wraparound
A flaw was found in libvirt. An unprivileged local user could exploit an integer overflow vulnerability in the NodeGetFreePages RPC handler. This flaw allows crafted values to bypass a size check, leading to an undersized memory buffer. Subsequently, real NUMA
- 7.8 High severity
vim: Improper Control of Generation of Code
A flaw was found in Vim's netrw plugin. A crafted filename containing quote characters and expression fragments can break out of the quoted context during mark/unmark operations, allowing arbitrary Vimscript execution. This can be leveraged to run shell comman
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
A memory leak flaw was found in cockpit-ws. The login page handler leaks a heap allocation on every unauthenticated request that carries a CockpitLang cookie, allowing a remote unauthenticated attacker to exhaust memory on the host and cause a denial of servic
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Out-of-bounds Read
A unauthenticated remote peer may lead rsyslogd to crash due to a flaw in the optional imptcp module. A crafted input sequence during oversize-frame recovery can cause an invalid internal message length and terminate rsyslogd. No confidentiality or integrity i
- 8.2 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Incorrect Authorization
A flaw was found in FreeIPA. The trust-fetch-domains command is gated by a read-only permission on the trust object rather than a trust-administration permission, allowing an authenticated, non-privileged IPA user to trigger a privileged Active Directory trust
- 8.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Improper Control of Generation of Code
A flaw was found in DBI. This is a fix for a partial fix for CVE-2026-14380 for RHEL 9.8.z and 10.2.z. For a detailed Statement, Description and Mitigation please reffer to the original https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2026-19546.
- 7.1 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access
A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link (symlink) following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process I
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Improper Access Control
`openvt -u` is intended to identify the owner of the current VT and then execute `login` as that user from a privileged context. In the documented `kbrequest`/init usage, the ownership test in `authenticate_user()` relies on `stat("/proc/<pid>/fd/0")`. `stat()
- 7.5 High severity
A flaw was found in iperf3. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending…
A flaw was found in iperf3. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted control-channel JSON with oversized numeric parameters, such as `parallel` and `len`, which are not properly validated by the server. This improper input validation
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access
A flaw was found in libvirt. A local attacker, specifically a process running as the confined `swtpm` user, could exploit a symlink-following vulnerability in the `virFileChownFiles()` function. By planting a symbolic link within the `swtpm` state directory, t
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: Out-of-bounds Write
A flaw was found in GIMP's file format plugins, including those for PSD and PAA files. A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted image file. This could lead to unexpected application behavior or o
- 9.9 Critical severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)
A flaw was found in GIMP's PSD file format plugin. This vulnerability, an unsigned integer underflow in the `block_rem` variable, occurs when a user opens a specially crafted `.psd` image file. The underflow leads to parser confusion, enabling an attacker to i
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: Out-of-bounds Write
A flaw was found in the GIMP image manipulation program, specifically within its Seattle Filmworks file loader. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted Seattle Filmworks file. This could lead to a
- 7.1 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Integer Overflow or Wraparound
Multiple integer overflow and underflow vulnerabilities were found in the GStreamer gst-plugins-ugly ASF demuxer (asfdemux) when parsing header objects from crafted ASF, WMV, or WMA files. Insufficient validation of attacker-controlled length and size values c
- 7.6 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Out-of-bounds Write
A heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability was found in the GStreamer gst-plugins-bad adpcmdec element when decoding IMA/DVI ADPCM audio. Insufficient validation of the per-block sample count for multi-channel streams allows a crafted WAV file to cause writes be
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size
A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the GIMP DDS (DirectDraw Surface) file parser. When a crafted DDS file declares a D3D9 pixel format but sets a lower bits-per-pixel (bpp) value in the header, the loader allocates an undersized heap buffer.
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command
A flaw was found in dracut. The die() error-handling function writes its message into a shell script under the initramfs emergency-hook directory without properly shell-quoting it. When the message contains data derived from the DHCP ROOT_PATH option, an attac
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Incorrect Authorization
A flaw was found in udisks2. A local attacker with an active console session can exploit insufficient authorization checking on the 'as-user' option in the org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Filesystem.Mount() D-Bus method. This allows the attacker to spoof the 'as-user'
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
A flaw was found in the GStreamer gst-plugins-good package. The rtph264depay and rtph265depay RTP depayloader elements do not enforce a maximum size limit on the reassembly buffer used during fragmented RTP packet processing. A remote, unauthenticated attacker
- 7.3 High severity
libkcapi: Use After Free
Memory Corruption via Uncanceled AIO Requests on Error: libkcapi's one-shot AIO path can return an error before all submitted IOCBs are drained, allowing later kernel writes into caller-owned output buffers.