High RHSA-2026:86606 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: gvfs security update

Published Nov 13, 2026 · Updated Nov 13, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 13

Release	Package	Fixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	gvfs	0:1.36.2-7.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	gvfs-afc	0:1.36.2-7.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	gvfs-afp	0:1.36.2-7.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	gvfs-archive	0:1.36.2-7.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	gvfs-client	0:1.36.2-7.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	gvfs-debuginfo	0:1.36.2-7.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	gvfs-devel	0:1.36.2-7.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	gvfs-fuse	0:1.36.2-7.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	gvfs-goa	0:1.36.2-7.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	gvfs-gphoto2	0:1.36.2-7.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	gvfs-mtp	0:1.36.2-7.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	gvfs-smb	0:1.36.2-7.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	gvfs-tests	0:1.36.2-7.el7_9.1

Vulnerabilities 1

High 8.8

CVE-2026-84268

Gvfs: sftp: heap-based buffer overflow in read_reply()

A flaw was found in the SFTP backend in gvfs. When mounting a share and reading a file, a malicious SFTP server can cause read_reply() to process a length that exceeds the size requested by the client. The function does not verify the server-provided length a…

Red Hat GNOME Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Linux Debian Ubuntu

Sep 1, 2026

References

article
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
report
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2526485
advisory
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_86606.json
report
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-84268
advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-84268
advisory
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84268
article
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/-/issues/862