RLSA-2026:12423

Synopsis

Important: libcap security update

Description

Libcap is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e (formerly POSIX 6) draft 15 capabilities.

Security Fix(es):

* libcap: libcap: Privilege escalation via TOCTOU race condition in cap_set_file() (CVE-2026-4878)

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.

Affected products

Rocky Linux 10 aarch64 Rocky Linux 10 ppc64le Rocky Linux 10 s390x Rocky Linux 10 x86_64

Fixes

2451615

CVEs

CVE-2026-4878

Affected packages

Rocky Linux 10 ppc64le - BaseOS

libcap-debugsource-0:2.69-7.el10_1.1.ppc64le.rpm libcap-0:2.69-7.el10_1.1.src.rpm libcap-0:2.69-7.el10_1.1.ppc64le.rpm libcap-debuginfo-0:2.69-7.el10_1.1.ppc64le.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 aarch64 - BaseOS

libcap-0:2.69-7.el10_1.1.src.rpm libcap-debugsource-0:2.69-7.el10_1.1.aarch64.rpm libcap-0:2.69-7.el10_1.1.aarch64.rpm libcap-debuginfo-0:2.69-7.el10_1.1.aarch64.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 s390x - BaseOS

libcap-0:2.69-7.el10_1.1.src.rpm libcap-debugsource-0:2.69-7.el10_1.1.s390x.rpm libcap-debuginfo-0:2.69-7.el10_1.1.s390x.rpm libcap-0:2.69-7.el10_1.1.s390x.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 x86_64 - BaseOS

libcap-0:2.69-7.el10_1.1.src.rpm libcap-0:2.69-7.el10_1.1.x86_64.rpm libcap-debuginfo-0:2.69-7.el10_1.1.x86_64.rpm libcap-debugsource-0:2.69-7.el10_1.1.x86_64.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 aarch64 - AppStream

libcap-devel-0:2.69-7.el10_1.1.aarch64.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 x86_64 - AppStream

libcap-devel-0:2.69-7.el10_1.1.x86_64.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 ppc64le - AppStream

libcap-devel-0:2.69-7.el10_1.1.ppc64le.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 s390x - AppStream

libcap-devel-0:2.69-7.el10_1.1.s390x.rpm