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Call for testing: patched kernels for two vulnerabilities (Januscape & Bad Epoll)
by Jonathan Wright 06 Jul '26

06 Jul '26

Hi all, As you can tell from the subject, we're back again having shipped patched kernels to the testing repository for two serious Linux kernel vulnerabilities and are asking the community to help verify them before they move to production. Januscape (CVE-2026-53359) is a KVM/x86 flaw affecting all supported releases (8, 9, and 10), on both Intel and AMD. In its most serious form it is a guest-to-host escape: an attacker who can start a VM can break out and run commands as root on the host, which puts nearly every multi-tenant x86 cloud host at risk. It can also crash the host kernel from inside a guest (DoS), and because /dev/kvm is world-readable at 0666 by default, it doubles as a local privilege escalation to root with no VM involved. The bug went undetected for roughly 16 years and is now patched in mainline. Bad Epoll (CVE-2026-46242) is a use-after-free race in the kernel's epoll subsystem that gives an unprivileged local user a reliable escalation to root. It affects AlmaLinux 9 and 10 (8 is not affected). AlmaLinux's core team backported both fixes to every affected branch, and ALESCo approved shipping ahead of the CentOS Stream / RHEL update. How to test: sudo dnf install -y almalinux-release-testing sudo dnf update 'kernel*' --enablerepo=almalinux-testing sudo reboot uname -r && rpm -q kernel Patched kernel versions (install this or higher): AlmaLinux 8: kernel-4.18.0-553.139.4.el8_10 (Januscape only) AlmaLinux 9: kernel-5.14.0-687.20.3.el9_8 AlmaLinux 10: kernel-6.12.0-211.30.3.el10_2 Disable the testing repo afterward on any production system: sudo dnf config-manager --disable almalinux-testing Report any problems in AlmaLinux chat <https://chat.almalinux.org>or at bugs.almalinux.org. The kernels will move to production once the community has helped verify them. Full details: https://almalinux.org/blog/2026-07-06-januscape-bad-epoll/ -- Jonathan Wright AlmaLinux OS Foundation Mattermost: chat <https://chat.almalinux.org/almalinux/messages/@jonathan>

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[Security Advisory] ALSA-2026:35841: nodejs24 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Important)
by AlmaLinux Errata Notifications 06 Jul '26

06 Jul '26

Hi, You are receiving an AlmaLinux Security update email because you subscribed to receive errata notifications from AlmaLinux. AlmaLinux: 10 Type: Security Severity: Important Release date: 2026-07-06 Summary: Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices. Security Fix(es): * ip-address: ip-address: Cross-site scripting via improper HTML escaping of untrusted input (CVE-2026-42338) * undici: undici: Denial of Service due to unbounded memory growth via WebSocket frames (CVE-2026-12151) * undici: Undici: Information disclosure due to improper cache-control header parsing (CVE-2026-9678) * undici: Undici: Response queue poisoning on reused keep-alive sockets can lead to incorrect response delivery. (CVE-2026-6733) * undici: undici: Weakening of cookie SameSite policy due to incorrect parsing of Set-Cookie header (CVE-2026-11525) * undici: undici: Man-in-the-Middle attack via ignored TLS options with SOCKS5 proxy (CVE-2026-9697) * undici: undici: Information disclosure and data integrity issues due to incorrect Socks5ProxyAgent connection routing (CVE-2026-6734) * nodejs: Node.js: Denial of Service via unlimited HTTP/2 ORIGIN frames (CVE-2026-48619) * nodejs: Node.js: Silent authority rebinding due to embedded-nul hostnames in TLS handling (CVE-2026-48930) * nodejs: Node.js: Unauthorized file metadata modification (CVE-2026-48935) * nodejs: Node.js WebCrypto: Denial of Service via large input to subtle.encrypt() (CVE-2026-48933) * nodejs: Node.js: Certification validation bypass in TLS host verification (CVE-2026-48934) * Node.js: Node.js: Trust-policy bypass due to hostname matching inconsistency (CVE-2026-48928) * nodejs: Node.js: Information disclosure of proxy credentials via proxy tunnel error handling (CVE-2026-48615) * nodejs: Node.js: Authentication bypass due to TLS hostname handling and unicode dot separator mismatch (CVE-2026-48618) Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s): * nodejs24: Rebase to the latest Node.js 24 release [almalinux-10.2.z] (JIRA:AlmaLinux-186582) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information: https://errata.almalinux.org/10/ALSA-2026-35841.html This message is automatically generated, please don’t reply. For further questions, please, contact us via the AlmaLinux community chat: https://chat.almalinux.org/. Want to change your notification settings? Sign in and manage mailing lists on https://lists.almalinux.org. Kind regards, AlmaLinux Team

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[Security Advisory] ALSA-2026:35842: nodejs22 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Important)
by AlmaLinux Errata Notifications 06 Jul '26

06 Jul '26

Hi, You are receiving an AlmaLinux Security update email because you subscribed to receive errata notifications from AlmaLinux. AlmaLinux: 10 Type: Security Severity: Important Release date: 2026-07-06 Summary: Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime \ for easily building fast, scalable network applications. \ Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that \ makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive \ real-time applications that run across distributed devices. Security Fix(es): * ip-address: ip-address: Cross-site scripting via improper HTML escaping of untrusted input (CVE-2026-42338) * undici: undici: Denial of Service due to unbounded memory growth via WebSocket frames (CVE-2026-12151) * undici: Undici: Information disclosure due to improper cache-control header parsing (CVE-2026-9678) * undici: Undici: Response queue poisoning on reused keep-alive sockets can lead to incorrect response delivery. (CVE-2026-6733) * undici: undici: Weakening of cookie SameSite policy due to incorrect parsing of Set-Cookie header (CVE-2026-11525) * nodejs: Node.js: Denial of Service via unlimited HTTP/2 ORIGIN frames (CVE-2026-48619) * nodejs: Node.js: Silent authority rebinding due to embedded-nul hostnames in TLS handling (CVE-2026-48930) * nodejs: Node.js: Unauthorized file metadata modification (CVE-2026-48935) * nodejs: Node.js WebCrypto: Denial of Service via large input to subtle.encrypt() (CVE-2026-48933) * nodejs: Node.js: Certification validation bypass in TLS host verification (CVE-2026-48934) * Node.js: Node.js: Trust-policy bypass due to hostname matching inconsistency (CVE-2026-48928) * nodejs: Node.js: Information disclosure of proxy credentials via proxy tunnel error handling (CVE-2026-48615) * nodejs: Node.js: Authentication bypass due to TLS hostname handling and unicode dot separator mismatch (CVE-2026-48618) Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s): * nodejs22: Rebase to the latest Node.js 22 release [almalinux-10.2.z] (JIRA:AlmaLinux-186623) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information: https://errata.almalinux.org/10/ALSA-2026-35842.html This message is automatically generated, please don’t reply. For further questions, please, contact us via the AlmaLinux community chat: https://chat.almalinux.org/. Want to change your notification settings? Sign in and manage mailing lists on https://lists.almalinux.org. Kind regards, AlmaLinux Team

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[Security Advisory] ALSA-2026:35830: grafana security update (Important)
by AlmaLinux Errata Notifications 06 Jul '26

06 Jul '26

Hi, You are receiving an AlmaLinux Security update email because you subscribed to receive errata notifications from AlmaLinux. AlmaLinux: 8 Type: Security Severity: Important Release date: 2026-07-06 Summary: Grafana is an open source, feature rich metrics dashboard and graph editor for Graphite, InfluxDB & OpenTSDB. Security Fix(es): * golang.org/x/net/idna: golang: golang.org/x/net/idna: Privilege escalation via incorrect Punycode label processing (CVE-2026-39821) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information: https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2026-35830.html This message is automatically generated, please don’t reply. For further questions, please, contact us via the AlmaLinux community chat: https://chat.almalinux.org/. Want to change your notification settings? Sign in and manage mailing lists on https://lists.almalinux.org. Kind regards, AlmaLinux Team

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[Security Advisory] ALSA-2026:35831: grafana-pcp security update (Important)
by AlmaLinux Errata Notifications 06 Jul '26

06 Jul '26

Hi, You are receiving an AlmaLinux Security update email because you subscribed to receive errata notifications from AlmaLinux. AlmaLinux: 8 Type: Security Severity: Important Release date: 2026-07-06 Summary: The Grafana plugin for Performance Co-Pilot includes datasources for scalable time series from pmseries and Redis, live PCP metrics and bpftrace scripts from pmdabpftrace, as well as several dashboards. Security Fix(es): * golang.org/x/net/idna: golang: golang.org/x/net/idna: Privilege escalation via incorrect Punycode label processing (CVE-2026-39821) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information: https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2026-35831.html This message is automatically generated, please don’t reply. For further questions, please, contact us via the AlmaLinux community chat: https://chat.almalinux.org/. Want to change your notification settings? Sign in and manage mailing lists on https://lists.almalinux.org. Kind regards, AlmaLinux Team

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[Security Advisory] ALSA-2026:34911: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Important)
by AlmaLinux Errata Notifications 06 Jul '26

06 Jul '26

Hi, You are receiving an AlmaLinux Security update email because you subscribed to receive errata notifications from AlmaLinux. AlmaLinux: 10 Type: Security Severity: Important Release date: 2026-07-04 Summary: The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fix(es): * kernel: fs/smb/client: fix out-of-bounds read in cifs_sanitize_prepath (CVE-2026-43112) * kernel: rxrpc: Fix potential UAF after skb_unshare() failure (CVE-2026-45998) * kernel: drm/gem: Fix inconsistent plane dimension calculation in drm_gem_fb_init_with_funcs() (CVE-2026-46209) * kernel: netfilter: nft_inner: Fix IPv6 inner_thoff desync (CVE-2026-46244) * kernel: Arm Processors: Privilege escalation or information disclosure via writes to higher exception level resources (CVE-2025-10263) * kernel: KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Drop the translation cache reference only for the erased entry (CVE-2026-46316) * kernel: kernel: ipv6 frag escape () Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s): * crypto: testmgr - allow authenc(hmac(sha{256,384}),cts(cbc(aes))) in FIPS mode [almalinux-10.2.z] (JIRA:AlmaLinux-182537) * [ThinkPad Avon/Mario +AlmaLinux 10.2]The OS hang up with CapsLock fliker (JIRA:AlmaLinux-185110) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information: https://errata.almalinux.org/10/ALSA-2026-34911.html This message is automatically generated, please don’t reply. For further questions, please, contact us via the AlmaLinux community chat: https://chat.almalinux.org/. Want to change your notification settings? Sign in and manage mailing lists on https://lists.almalinux.org. Kind regards, AlmaLinux Team

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[Security Advisory] ALSA-2026:33514: ruby:2.5 security update (Important)
by AlmaLinux Errata Notifications 03 Jul '26

03 Jul '26

Hi, You are receiving an AlmaLinux Security update email because you subscribed to receive errata notifications from AlmaLinux. AlmaLinux: 8 Type: Security Severity: Important Release date: 2026-07-03 Summary: Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks. Security Fix(es): * ruby/net-imap: ruby: Net::IMAP: IMAP Command Injection via Symbol Arguments (CVE-2026-42258) * net-imap: ruby: Net::IMAP: Information disclosure via man-in-the-middle attack bypassing TLS (CVE-2026-42246) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information: https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2026-33514.html This message is automatically generated, please don’t reply. For further questions, please, contact us via the AlmaLinux community chat: https://chat.almalinux.org/. Want to change your notification settings? Sign in and manage mailing lists on https://lists.almalinux.org. Kind regards, AlmaLinux Team

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[Security Advisory] ALSA-2026:33515: ruby:3.3 security update (Important)
by AlmaLinux Errata Notifications 03 Jul '26

03 Jul '26

Hi, You are receiving an AlmaLinux Security update email because you subscribed to receive errata notifications from AlmaLinux. AlmaLinux: 8 Type: Security Severity: Important Release date: 2026-07-03 Summary: Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks. Security Fix(es): * ruby: net-imap: Net::IMAP: Denial of Service via crafted IMAP responses (CVE-2026-42245) * ruby/net-imap: ruby: Net::IMAP: IMAP Command Injection via Symbol Arguments (CVE-2026-42258) * net-imap: ruby: Net::IMAP: Information disclosure via man-in-the-middle attack bypassing TLS (CVE-2026-42246) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information: https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2026-33515.html This message is automatically generated, please don’t reply. For further questions, please, contact us via the AlmaLinux community chat: https://chat.almalinux.org/. Want to change your notification settings? Sign in and manage mailing lists on https://lists.almalinux.org. Kind regards, AlmaLinux Team

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[Security Advisory] ALSA-2026:33722: container-tools:rhel8 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Important)
by AlmaLinux Errata Notifications 03 Jul '26

03 Jul '26

Hi, You are receiving an AlmaLinux Security update email because you subscribed to receive errata notifications from AlmaLinux. AlmaLinux: 8 Type: Security Severity: Important Release date: 2026-07-03 Summary: The container-tools module contains tools for working with containers, notably podman, buildah, skopeo, and runc. Security Fix(es): * net/url: Incorrect parsing of IPv6 host literals in net/url (CVE-2026-25679) * github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3: github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4: Go JOSE: Denial of Service via crafted JSON Web Encryption (JWE) object (CVE-2026-34986) * crypto/x509: golang: Go crypto/x509: Denial of Service via inefficient certificate chain validation (CVE-2026-32281) * crypto/tls: golang: Go crypto/tls: Denial of Service via multiple TLS 1.3 key update messages (CVE-2026-32283) * crypto/x509: crypto/tls: golang: Go: Denial of Service vulnerability in certificate chain building (CVE-2026-32280) Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s): * user_u SELinux user can't run podman containers as rootless (JIRA:AlmaLinux-135342) * podman does not clean up all files and leaves orphaned files consuming disk space [almalinux-8.10.z] (JIRA:AlmaLinux-173978) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information: https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2026-33722.html This message is automatically generated, please don’t reply. For further questions, please, contact us via the AlmaLinux community chat: https://chat.almalinux.org/. Want to change your notification settings? Sign in and manage mailing lists on https://lists.almalinux.org. Kind regards, AlmaLinux Team

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[Security Advisory] ALSA-2026:19358: freerdp security update (Moderate)
by AlmaLinux Errata Notifications 02 Jul '26

02 Jul '26

Hi, You are receiving an AlmaLinux Security update email because you subscribed to receive errata notifications from AlmaLinux. AlmaLinux: 9 Type: Security Severity: Moderate Release date: 2026-07-02 Summary: FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license. The xfreerdp client can connect to RDP servers such as Microsoft Windows machines, xrdp, and VirtualBox. Security Fix(es): * freerdp: FreeRDP: Denial of service due to use-after-free vulnerability (CVE-2026-25952) * freerdp: FreeRDP: Denial of Service via double free vulnerability during disconnect (CVE-2026-26986) * freerdp: FreeRDP: Denial of Service via endless blocking loop in Stream_EnsureCapacity (CVE-2026-27951) * freerdp: FreeRDP has a heap-buffer-overflow in bitmap_cache_put via OOB cacheId (CVE-2026-29775) * freerdp: FreeRDP has an out-of-bounds read in ADPCM decoders due to missing predictor/step_index bounds checks (CVE-2026-31885) * freerdp: FreeRDP has a division-by-zero in ADPCM decoders when `nBlockAlign` is 0 (CVE-2026-31884) * freerdp: FreeRDP: Denial of Service via crafted audio data in RDP (CVE-2026-31883) * FreeRDP: FreeRDP: Information disclosure via heap memory out of bounds read (CVE-2026-33985) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information: https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2026-19358.html This message is automatically generated, please don’t reply. For further questions, please, contact us via the AlmaLinux community chat: https://chat.almalinux.org/. Want to change your notification settings? Sign in and manage mailing lists on https://lists.almalinux.org. Kind regards, AlmaLinux Team

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