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Red HatCVE-2026-88265

Red Hat crun. After pivot_root: link following

Medium5.6CVE-2026-88265 · Published Sep 10, 2026 · updated Sep 15, 2026

A flaw was found in crun. After pivot_root, reopening /dev/null for stdio can follow a symlink and attach a host file to container stdio, then change that file's ownership. Affected versions are crun 1.29.1 and earlier. Default configurations that mount a fresh /dev are not exposed. No fixed release is available yet.

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Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Red Hat Hardened Images
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
all versionsNo fix yet
all versionsNo fix yet
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