Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs Security Update
🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)
📋 Description
CVE-2026-5223 — cargo: Cargo: Source code overwrite due to symlink mishandling in third-party registries CVE-2026-50185 — cmov: cmov: Incorrect output due to improper zero-extension in aarch64 conditional move operations
🎯 Affected products5
- Red Hat Hardened Images
- rust-main@aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
- rust-main@noarch as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
- rust-main@src as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
- rust-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 using untrusted third-party Cargo registries. If third-party registries are necessary, ensure they enforce strict policies against symlinks in crate tarballs and verify the integrity of downloaded crates. No direct configuration or operational workaround is available within Cargo itself to prevent this specific symlink mishandling when using vulnerable third-party registries.
🔗 References (6)
- selfhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:42923
- externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-50185
- externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
- externalhttps://images.redhat.com/
- externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-5223
- selfhttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_42923.json