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Medium ALAS2-2026-3949 1 CVE

Moderate: policycoreutils security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Sep 28, 2026 · Updated Sep 28, 2026

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-19079: A TOCTOU (Time-of-Check-Time-of-Use) race condition vulnerability was found in the fixfiles script in policycoreutils. When running fixfiles relabel or fixfiles restore, the script used find and chcon commands to locate and relabel unlabeled files under /tmp and other directories. A local attacker could exploit a race window between the file discovery and the label change operation by swapping directory components with symlinks, causing chcon to follow the symlink and modify SELinux labels on arbitrary system files. This could undermine SELinux mandatory access control protections on critical files such as /etc/shadow.

Fixed packages 8

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 policycoreutils 0:2.5-22.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 policycoreutils-debuginfo 0:2.5-22.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 policycoreutils-devel 0:2.5-22.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 policycoreutils-gui 0:2.5-22.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 policycoreutils-newrole 0:2.5-22.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 policycoreutils-python 0:2.5-22.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 policycoreutils-restorecond 0:2.5-22.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 policycoreutils-sandbox 0:2.5-22.amzn2.0.1

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-19079.html