RHSA-2026:6206MediumCVSS 8.2

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

Published
March 30, 2026
Last Modified
September 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (8)

CVE-2018-6913 →CVE-2020-10543 →CVE-2022-48522 →CVE-2012-6329 →CVE-2015-8853 →CVE-2016-2381 →CVE-2017-12837 →CVE-2017-12883 →

📋 Description

CVE-2012-6329 — perl: possible arbitrary code execution via Locale::Maketext CVE-2015-8853 — perl: regexp matching hangs indefinitely on illegal UTF-8 input CVE-2016-2381 — perl: ambiguous environment variables handling CVE-2017-12837 — perl: Heap buffer overflow in regular expression compiler CVE-2017-12883 — perl: Buffer over-read in regular expression parser CVE-2018-6913 — perl: heap buffer overflow in pp_pack.c CVE-2020-10543 — perl: heap-based buffer overflow in regular expression compiler leads to DoS CVE-2022-48522 — perl: stack-based crash in S_find_uninit_var()

🎯 Affected products5

  • Red Hat Hardened Images
  • perl-main@aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
  • perl-main@noarch as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
  • perl-main@src as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
  • perl-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 flaw, developers should not allow untrusted regular expressions to be compiled by the Perl regular expression compiler.

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