Issued at: 2026-07-23
Updated at: 2026-07-23
Synopsis
Important: acl security update
Description
Access Control Lists (ACLs) are used to define fine-grained discretionary access rights for files and directories. The acl packages contain the getfacl and setfacl utilities needed for manipulating access control lists.
Security Fix(es):
* acl: Symlink traversal privilege escalation via libacl functions (CVE-2026-54369)
* acl: TOCTOU Symlink Traversal via getfacl/setfacl (CVE-2026-54370)
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
2490277
2490279
CVEs
CVE-2026-54369
CVE-2026-54370
Affected packages
Rocky Linux 8 aarch64 - BaseOS
acl-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
acl-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.src.rpm
acl-debuginfo-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
acl-debugsource-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
libacl-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
libacl-debuginfo-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
libacl-devel-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
Rocky Linux 8 x86_64 - BaseOS
acl-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.src.rpm
acl-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
acl-debuginfo-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.i686.rpm
acl-debuginfo-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
acl-debugsource-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.i686.rpm
acl-debugsource-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
libacl-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.i686.rpm
libacl-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
libacl-debuginfo-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.i686.rpm
libacl-debuginfo-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
libacl-devel-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.i686.rpm
libacl-devel-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm