Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs Security Update

Fixed packages 3

Vulnerabilities 2

• High 7.0
  CVE-2026-26157 Public exploit

  Busybox: busybox: arbitrary file overwrite and potential code execution via incomplete path sanitization

  A flaw was found in BusyBox. Incomplete path sanitization in its archive extraction utilities allows an attacker to craft malicious archives that when extracted, and under specific conditions, may write to files outside the intended directory. This can lead t…

  Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Hardened Images busybox Linux Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Wolfi
  Feb 11, 2026
• High 7.0
  CVE-2026-26158

  Busybox: busybox: arbitrary file modification and privilege escalation via unvalidated tar archive entries

  A flaw was found in BusyBox. This vulnerability allows an attacker to modify files outside of the intended extraction directory by crafting a malicious tar archive containing unvalidated hardlink or symlink entries. If the tar archive is extracted with elevat…

  Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Hardened Images busybox Linux Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Wolfi
  Feb 11, 2026

References

• report
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-26157
• report
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-26158
• article
  https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
• article
  https://images.redhat.com/
• advisory
  https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_13831.json
• report
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2439039
• advisory
  https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-26157
• advisory
  https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-26157
• article
  https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/archival?id=3fb6b31c716669e12f75a2accd31bb7685b1a1cb
• report
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2439040
• advisory
  https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-26158
• advisory
  https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-26158