Red Hat Security Advisory: rhc-worker-playbook security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Fixed packages 3

Vulnerabilities 4

• High 7.5
  CVE-2026-33811

  Crash when handling long CNAME response in net

  When using LookupCNAME with the cgo DNS resolver, a very long CNAME response can trigger a double-free of C memory and a crash.

  Go standard library net golang go Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine Wolfi Go
  May 7, 2026
• High 7.5
  CVE-2026-42504

  Quadratic complexity in WordDecoder.DecodeHeader in mime

  Decoding a maliciously-crafted MIME header containing many invalid encoded-words can consume excessive CPU.

  Go standard library mime golang go Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine Wolfi Go
  Jun 2, 2026
• High 7.3
  CVE-2026-11837 Public exploit

  Ansible-collection-ansible-posix: ansible.posix authorized_key: local privilege escalation via symlink-following chown

  A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found in the ansible.posix authorized_key module. The module's keyfile() function uses os.chown() instead of os.lchown() and opens files without O_NOFOLLOW when managing SSH authorized keys. An unprivileged local…

  Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Linux Debian Ubuntu
  Jun 10, 2026
• Medium 6.5
  CVE-2026-27145 Public exploit

  Inefficient candidate hostname parsing in crypto/x509

  (*x509.Certificate).VerifyHostname previously called matchHostnames in a loop over all DNS Subject Alternative Name (SAN) entries. This caused strings.Split(host, ".") to execute repeatedly on the same input hostname. With a large DNS SAN list, verification c…

  Go standard library crypto/x509 golang stdlib Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Wolfi Go
  Jun 2, 2026

References

• article
  https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• report
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2467822
• report
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2484207
• article
  https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-208712
• advisory
  https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_42946.json
• report
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-11837
• report
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2487424
• advisory
  https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-11837
• advisory
  https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-11837
• report
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-27145
• advisory
  https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-27145
• advisory
  https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-27145
• article
  https://go.dev/cl/783621
• article
  https://go.dev/issue/79694
• article
  https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/tKs3rmcBcKw
• advisory
  https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-5037
• report
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-33811
• advisory
  https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-33811
• advisory
  https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33811
• article
  https://go.dev/cl/767860
• article
  https://go.dev/issue/78803
• article
  https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/qcCIEXso47M
• advisory
  https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-4981
• report
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-42504
• report
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2484204
• advisory
  https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-42504
• advisory
  https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42504
• article
  https://go.dev/cl/774481
• article
  https://go.dev/issue/79217
• advisory
  https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-5038