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Medium RHSA-2026:50051 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: systemd security update

Published Aug 5, 2026 · Updated Oct 15, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 32

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 AUS rhel_aus:8.4::baseos systemd 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 AUS rhel_aus:8.4::baseos systemd-container 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 AUS rhel_aus:8.4::baseos systemd-container-debuginfo 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 AUS rhel_aus:8.4::baseos systemd-debuginfo 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 AUS rhel_aus:8.4::baseos systemd-debugsource 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 AUS rhel_aus:8.4::baseos systemd-devel 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 AUS rhel_aus:8.4::baseos systemd-journal-remote 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 AUS rhel_aus:8.4::baseos systemd-journal-remote-debuginfo 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 AUS rhel_aus:8.4::baseos systemd-libs 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 AUS rhel_aus:8.4::baseos systemd-libs-debuginfo 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 AUS rhel_aus:8.4::baseos systemd-pam 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 AUS rhel_aus:8.4::baseos systemd-pam-debuginfo 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 AUS rhel_aus:8.4::baseos systemd-tests 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 AUS rhel_aus:8.4::baseos systemd-tests-debuginfo 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 AUS rhel_aus:8.4::baseos systemd-udev 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 AUS rhel_aus:8.4::baseos systemd-udev-debuginfo 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.4::baseos systemd 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.4::baseos systemd-container 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.4::baseos systemd-container-debuginfo 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.4::baseos systemd-debuginfo 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.4::baseos systemd-debugsource 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.4::baseos systemd-devel 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.4::baseos systemd-journal-remote 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.4::baseos systemd-journal-remote-debuginfo 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.4::baseos systemd-libs 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.4::baseos systemd-libs-debuginfo 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.4::baseos systemd-pam 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.4::baseos systemd-pam-debuginfo 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.4::baseos systemd-tests 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.4::baseos systemd-tests-debuginfo 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.4::baseos systemd-udev 0:239-45.el8_4.17
Red Hat · RHEL 8.4 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.4::baseos systemd-udev-debuginfo 0:239-45.el8_4.17

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 5.5
    CVE-2026-29111

    systemd: Local unprivileged user can trigger an assert

    systemd, a system and service manager, (as PID 1) hits an assert and freezes execution when an unprivileged IPC API call is made with spurious data. On version v249 and older the effect is not an assert, but stack overwriting, with the attacker controlled con…

    systemd systemd systemd systemd Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2450505
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_50051.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-29111
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-29111
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-29111
  • article
    https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/1d22f706bd04f45f8422e17fbde3f56ece17758a
  • article
    https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/20021e7686426052e3a7505425d7e12085feb2a6
  • article
    https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/21167006574d6b83813c7596759b474f56562412
  • article
    https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/3cee294fe8cf4fa0eff933ab21416d099942cabd
  • article
    https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/42aee39107fbdd7db1ccd402a2151822b2805e9f
  • article
    https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/54588d2dedff54bfb6036670820650e4ea74628f
  • article
    https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/7ac3220213690e8a8d6d2a6e81e43bd1dce01d69
  • article
    https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/80acea4ef80a4bb78560ed970c34952299b890d6
  • article
    https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/b5fd14693057e5f2c9b4a49603be64ec3608ff6c
  • article
    https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/efa6ba2ab625aaa160ac435a09e6482fc63bdbe8
  • article
    https://github.com/systemd/systemd/security/advisories/GHSA-gx6q-6f99-m764