RHSA-2026:9113HighCVSS 7.5

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

Published
April 20, 2026
Last Modified
August 2, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

CVE-2026-40170 — ngtcp2: ngtcp2: Denial of service via stack buffer overflow during QUIC handshake

🎯 Affected products5

  • Red Hat Hardened Images
  • ngtcp2-main@aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
  • ngtcp2-main@noarch as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
  • ngtcp2-main@src as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
  • ngtcp2-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, disable the `qlog` callback in applications utilizing the ngtcp2 library. This action prevents the vulnerable code path from being exercised when processing untrusted QUIC peer transport parameters. Disabling `qlog` may impact logging and debugging capabilities. Applications linked against ngtcp2 must be restarted for the change to take effect.

🔗 References (5)