RLSA-2026:56219

Security

Mirrored from RHSA-2026:56219

Issued at: 2026-08-19

Updated at: 2026-08-19

Advisory content derived from Red Hat RHSA-2026:56219, © Red Hat, Inc., used under CC BY 4.0, with modifications.

Synopsis

Important: python3 security update

Description

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems.

Security Fix(es):

* python: cpython: CPython: tarfile extraction filter bypass allows escaping the destination directory (CVE-2026-11940)

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

2491848

CVEs

CVE-2026-11940

Affected packages

Rocky Linux 8 aarch64 - BaseOS

platform-python-0:3.6.8-78.el8_10.rocky.0.aarch64.rpm

python3-0:3.6.8-78.el8_10.rocky.0.src.rpm

python3-debuginfo-0:3.6.8-78.el8_10.rocky.0.aarch64.rpm

python3-debugsource-0:3.6.8-78.el8_10.rocky.0.aarch64.rpm

python3-libs-0:3.6.8-78.el8_10.rocky.0.aarch64.rpm

python3-test-0:3.6.8-78.el8_10.rocky.0.aarch64.rpm

Rocky Linux 8 x86_64 - AppStream

platform-python-0:3.6.8-78.el8_10.rocky.0.i686.rpm

platform-python-debug-0:3.6.8-78.el8_10.rocky.0.i686.rpm

platform-python-debug-0:3.6.8-78.el8_10.rocky.0.x86_64.rpm

platform-python-devel-0:3.6.8-78.el8_10.rocky.0.i686.rpm

platform-python-devel-0:3.6.8-78.el8_10.rocky.0.x86_64.rpm

python3-idle-0:3.6.8-78.el8_10.rocky.0.i686.rpm

python3-idle-0:3.6.8-78.el8_10.rocky.0.x86_64.rpm

python3-test-0:3.6.8-78.el8_10.rocky.0.i686.rpm

python3-tkinter-0:3.6.8-78.el8_10.rocky.0.i686.rpm

python3-tkinter-0:3.6.8-78.el8_10.rocky.0.x86_64.rpm

Rocky Linux 8 x86_64 - BaseOS

platform-python-0:3.6.8-78.el8_10.rocky.0.x86_64.rpm

python3-0:3.6.8-78.el8_10.rocky.0.src.rpm

python3-debuginfo-0:3.6.8-78.el8_10.rocky.0.x86_64.rpm

python3-debugsource-0:3.6.8-78.el8_10.rocky.0.i686.rpm

python3-debugsource-0:3.6.8-78.el8_10.rocky.0.x86_64.rpm

python3-libs-0:3.6.8-78.el8_10.rocky.0.i686.rpm

python3-libs-0:3.6.8-78.el8_10.rocky.0.x86_64.rpm

python3-test-0:3.6.8-78.el8_10.rocky.0.x86_64.rpm

Rocky Linux 8 aarch64 - AppStream

platform-python-debug-0:3.6.8-78.el8_10.rocky.0.aarch64.rpm

platform-python-devel-0:3.6.8-78.el8_10.rocky.0.aarch64.rpm

python3-idle-0:3.6.8-78.el8_10.rocky.0.aarch64.rpm

python3-tkinter-0:3.6.8-78.el8_10.rocky.0.aarch64.rpm