RHSA-2026:97561HighCVSS 7.8
Red Hat Security Advisory: crun security, bug fix, and enhancement update
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
CVE-2026-84042 — crun: crun: rootful krun with passt executes container payload as host root
🎯 Affected products14
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
- crun-0:1.29.1-1.el9.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
- crun-0:1.29.1-1.el9.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
- crun-0:1.29.1-1.el9.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
- crun-0:1.29.1-1.el9.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
- crun-0:1.29.1-1.el9.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
- crun-debuginfo-0:1.29.1-1.el9.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
- crun-debuginfo-0:1.29.1-1.el9.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
- crun-debuginfo-0:1.29.1-1.el9.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
- crun-debuginfo-0:1.29.1-1.el9.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
- crun-debugsource-0:1.29.1-1.el9.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
- crun-debugsource-0:1.29.1-1.el9.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
- crun-debugsource-0:1.29.1-1.el9.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
- crun-debugsource-0:1.29.1-1.el9.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
✅ 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: Do not run untrusted images with krun and passt until a fixed crun is released.
🔗 References (7)
- selfhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:97561
- externalhttps://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.9_release_notes/index
- externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2531222
- externalhttps://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-169227
- externalhttps://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-185741
- selfhttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_97561.json