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High RHSA-2026:99864 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: glib2 security update

Published Nov 13, 2026 · Updated Nov 13, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 18

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos glib2 0:2.56.4-158.el8_6.8
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos glib2-debuginfo 0:2.56.4-158.el8_6.8
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos glib2-debugsource 0:2.56.4-158.el8_6.8
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos glib2-devel 0:2.56.4-158.el8_6.8
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos glib2-devel-debuginfo 0:2.56.4-158.el8_6.8
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos glib2-fam 0:2.56.4-158.el8_6.8
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos glib2-fam-debuginfo 0:2.56.4-158.el8_6.8
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos glib2-tests 0:2.56.4-158.el8_6.8
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 AUS rhel_aus:8.6::baseos glib2-tests-debuginfo 0:2.56.4-158.el8_6.8
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos glib2 0:2.56.4-158.el8_6.8
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos glib2-debuginfo 0:2.56.4-158.el8_6.8
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos glib2-debugsource 0:2.56.4-158.el8_6.8
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos glib2-devel 0:2.56.4-158.el8_6.8
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos glib2-devel-debuginfo 0:2.56.4-158.el8_6.8
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos glib2-fam 0:2.56.4-158.el8_6.8
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos glib2-fam-debuginfo 0:2.56.4-158.el8_6.8
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos glib2-tests 0:2.56.4-158.el8_6.8
Red Hat · RHEL 8.6 EUS Long Life rhel_eus_long_life:8.6::baseos glib2-tests-debuginfo 0:2.56.4-158.el8_6.8

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.1
    CVE-2026-16118

    Xdgmime: heap-based buffer overflow in _xdg_mime_magic_parse_magic_line() in xdgmimemagic.c

    A flaw was found in xdgmime. A heap-based buffer overflow can be triggered in _xdg_mime_magic_parse_magic_line() in the xdgmimemagic.c file on little-endian systems when an attacker-controlled MIME magic file in a user-writable XDG data location (e.g., in the…

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

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2501732
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_99864.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-16118
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-16118
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-16118
  • article
    https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdgmime/-/work_items/41