Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs Security Update
🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)
📋 Description
CVE-2026-38752 — busybox: BusyBox: Denial of Service via crafted AWK script CVE-2026-38755 — busybox: Busybox: Denial of Service via heap overflow in evalcommand() function
🎯 Affected products4
- Red Hat Hardened Images
- busybox-main@aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
- busybox-main@src as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
- busybox-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: For systems utilizing BusyBox, limit exposure by avoiding the execution of untrusted AWK scripts. Ensure that BusyBox instances are not configured to process arbitrary or untrusted AWK script input, particularly in environments where BusyBox is used for critical system functions. Workaround: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.
🔗 References (6)
- selfhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:42074
- externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-38752
- externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-38755
- externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
- externalhttps://images.redhat.com/
- selfhttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_42074.json