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RHSA-2026:10208

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2026-04-23 17:18 - Updated: 2026-09-08 06:00
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs bug fix and enhancement update
Severity
Important
Notes
Topic: An update for Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs is now available.
Details: This update includes the following RPMs: chunkah: * chunkah-0.4.0-1.hum1 (aarch64, x86_64) * chunkah-0.4.0-1.hum1.src (src)
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A flaw was found in Nix. Unbounded recursion in the NAR (Nix Archive) parser could lead to a stack-to-heap overflow when the parser is run on a coroutine stack. The stack is allocated without a guard page, which means that a stack overflow could overwrite memory on the heap and could allow arbitrary code execution as the Nix daemon (run as root in multi-user installations) if ASLR hardening is bypassed. This can be exploited by all users able to connect to the daemon (e.g., in Nix, this is configurable via the allowed-users setting, defaulting to all users).

CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: Red Hat Hardened Images:chunkah-main@aarch64
Vendor Fix fix
Unresolved product id: Red Hat Hardened Images:chunkah-main@src
Vendor Fix fix
Unresolved product id: Red Hat Hardened Images:chunkah-main@x86_64
Vendor Fix fix
Threats
Impact Important

A flaw was found in Nix. Writing to arbitrary files can occur via "nix-prefetch-url --unpack" or "nix store prefetch-file --unpack" directory traversal.

CWE-36 - Absolute Path Traversal
Affected products
Fixed 3 products, the same list as for CVE-2026-44028
Threats
Impact Important

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