Issued at: 2026-11-13
Updated at: 2026-11-14
Advisory content derived from Red Hat RHSA-2026:99595, © Red Hat, Inc., used under CC BY 4.0, with modifications.
Synopsis
Moderate: rpm security update
Description
The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a command-line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages.
Security Fix(es):
* rpm: Command injection in rpmuncompress via unescaped filenames passed to popen() (CVE-2026-84838)
* rpm: Command Injection in `rpmbuild -t*` (`getTarSpec`) via Unescaped Tarball Path (CVE-2026-84837)
* rpm: Command Execution via Macro Expansion in `rpmuncompress -x` for Crafted `.gem` Filenames (CVE-2026-84233)
* rpm: rpmbuild getTarSpec() crafted tar member name ? macro injection (CVE-2026-78367)
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.