RHSA-2026:97867HighCVSS 7.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: sos security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published
November 10, 2026
Last Modified
November 11, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-79655 →

📋 Description

CVE-2026-79655 — sos: sos: path traversal in sos clean tar extraction via unvalidated symlink/hardlink targets leads to arbitrary file write

🎯 Affected products4

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • sos-0:4.11.2-7.el9_9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • sos-0:4.11.2-7.el9_9.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • sos-audit-0:4.11.2-7.el9_9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (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: To mitigate this issue, avoid using the `sos clean` utility to extract tar archives from untrusted or unknown sources. This vulnerability requires user interaction to process a specially crafted archive.

🔗 References (4)