RLSA-2026:26534

Security

Mirrored from RHSA-2026:26534

Issued at: 2026-06-19

Updated at: 2026-06-21

Synopsis

Important: dracut security update

Description

The dracut packages contain an event-driven initial RAM file system (initramfs) generator infrastructure based on the udev device manager. The virtual file system, initramfs, is loaded together with the kernel at boot time and initializes the system, so it can read and boot from the root partition.

Security Fix(es):

* dracut: dracut: Root code execution via DHCP options command injection (CVE-2026-6893)

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 8 aarch64

Rocky Linux 8 x86_64

Fixes

2459963

CVEs

CVE-2026-6893

Affected packages

Rocky Linux 8 aarch64 - BaseOS

dracut-0:049-244.git20260529.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

dracut-0:049-244.git20260529.el8_10.src.rpm

dracut-caps-0:049-244.git20260529.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

dracut-config-generic-0:049-244.git20260529.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

dracut-config-rescue-0:049-244.git20260529.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

dracut-debuginfo-0:049-244.git20260529.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

dracut-debugsource-0:049-244.git20260529.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

dracut-live-0:049-244.git20260529.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

dracut-network-0:049-244.git20260529.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

dracut-squash-0:049-244.git20260529.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

dracut-tools-0:049-244.git20260529.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

Rocky Linux 8 x86_64 - BaseOS

dracut-0:049-244.git20260529.el8_10.src.rpm

dracut-0:049-244.git20260529.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

dracut-caps-0:049-244.git20260529.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

dracut-config-generic-0:049-244.git20260529.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

dracut-config-rescue-0:049-244.git20260529.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

dracut-debuginfo-0:049-244.git20260529.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

dracut-debugsource-0:049-244.git20260529.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

dracut-live-0:049-244.git20260529.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

dracut-network-0:049-244.git20260529.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

dracut-squash-0:049-244.git20260529.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

dracut-tools-0:049-244.git20260529.el8_10.x86_64.rpm