RLSA-2026:12441

Source
https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2026:12441
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2026:12441.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/RLSA-2026:12441
Upstream
  • CVE-2026-4878
Published
2026-05-03T12:03:41.515195Z
Modified
2026-05-03T12:30:10.627213Z
Severity
  • 6.7 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Important: libcap security update
Details

Libcap is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e (formerly POSIX 6) draft 15 capabilities.

Security Fix(es):

  • libcap: libcap: Privilege escalation via TOCTOU race condition in capsetfile() (CVE-2026-4878)

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.

References
Credits
    • Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
    • Red Hat

Affected packages

Rocky Linux:9 / libcap

Package

Name
libcap
Purl
pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/libcap?distro=rocky-linux-9&epoch=0

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0:2.48-10.el9_7.1
Database specific
{
    "yum_repository": "BaseOS"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2026:12441.json"