RHSA-2026:7854HighCVSS 7.5

Red Hat Security Advisory: podman security update

Published
April 13, 2026
Last Modified
August 14, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (4)

CVE-2025-61726 →CVE-2025-61728 →CVE-2025-61729 →CVE-2025-68121 →

📋 Description

CVE-2025-61726 — golang: net/url: Memory exhaustion in query parameter parsing in net/url CVE-2025-61728 — golang: archive/zip: Excessive CPU consumption when building archive index in archive/zip CVE-2025-61729 — crypto/x509: golang: Denial of Service due to excessive resource consumption via crafted certificate CVE-2025-68121 — crypto/tls: crypto/tls: Incorrect certificate validation during TLS session resumption

🎯 Affected products39

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
  • podman-5:5.4.0-20.el9_6.2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
  • podman-5:5.4.0-20.el9_6.2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
  • podman-5:5.4.0-20.el9_6.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
  • podman-5:5.4.0-20.el9_6.2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
  • podman-5:5.4.0-20.el9_6.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
  • podman-debuginfo-5:5.4.0-20.el9_6.2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
  • podman-debuginfo-5:5.4.0-20.el9_6.2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
  • podman-debuginfo-5:5.4.0-20.el9_6.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
  • podman-debuginfo-5:5.4.0-20.el9_6.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
  • podman-debugsource-5:5.4.0-20.el9_6.2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
  • podman-debugsource-5:5.4.0-20.el9_6.2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
  • podman-debugsource-5:5.4.0-20.el9_6.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
  • podman-debugsource-5:5.4.0-20.el9_6.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
  • podman-docker-5:5.4.0-20.el9_6.2.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
  • podman-plugins-5:5.4.0-20.el9_6.2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
  • podman-plugins-5:5.4.0-20.el9_6.2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
  • podman-plugins-5:5.4.0-20.el9_6.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
  • podman-plugins-5:5.4.0-20.el9_6.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
  • podman-plugins-debuginfo-5:5.4.0-20.el9_6.2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
  • podman-plugins-debuginfo-5:5.4.0-20.el9_6.2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
  • podman-plugins-debuginfo-5:5.4.0-20.el9_6.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
  • podman-plugins-debuginfo-5:5.4.0-20.el9_6.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
  • podman-remote-5:5.4.0-20.el9_6.2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
  • podman-remote-5:5.4.0-20.el9_6.2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
  • podman-remote-5:5.4.0-20.el9_6.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
  • podman-remote-5:5.4.0-20.el9_6.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
  • podman-remote-debuginfo-5:5.4.0-20.el9_6.2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
  • podman-remote-debuginfo-5:5.4.0-20.el9_6.2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
  • podman-remote-debuginfo-5:5.4.0-20.el9_6.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: Red Hat has investigated whether a possible mitigation exists for this issue, and has not been able to identify a practical example. Please update the affected package as soon as possible. Workaround: To mitigate this vulnerability, implement a timeout in your archive/zip processing logic to abort the operation if it exceeds a few seconds, preventing the application from consuming an excessive amount of resources.

🔗 References (7)