RHSA-2026:35813MediumCVSS 6.5
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs Security Update
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
CVE-2026-11972 — python: Python tarfile module: Denial of Service via improper EOF handling in streaming mode
🎯 Affected products4
- Red Hat Hardened Images
- python3-12-main@aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
- python3-12-main@src as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
- python3-12-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: Avoid using tarfile streaming mode (mode='r|') with untrusted tar archives. Use the standard file-based mode (mode='r') instead where possible.
🔗 References (5)
- selfhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:35813
- externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-11972
- externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
- externalhttps://images.redhat.com/
- selfhttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_35813.json