Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs Security Update

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

🎯 Affected products8

• Red Hat Hardened Images
• expat-0:2.8.4-0.2.hum1@aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
• expat-0:2.8.4-0.2.hum1@src as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
• expat-0:2.8.4-0.2.hum1@x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
• expat-devel-0:2.8.4-0.2.hum1@aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
• expat-devel-0:2.8.4-0.2.hum1@x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
• expat-static-0:2.8.4-0.2.hum1@aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
• expat-static-0:2.8.4-0.2.hum1@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 restrict which hosts can send XML (including UTF-16) to Expat-based services with a host firewall and network segmentation. Where applications allow, prefer UTF-8-only input and reject unexpected encodings.

🔗 References (5)

• selfhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71655
• externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-93990
• externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
• externalhttps://images.redhat.com/
• selfhttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_71655.json