Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs Security Update

An update for Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs is now available. This update includes the following RPMs: attr: attr-2.6.0-9.1.hum1 aarch64, x8664 libattr-2.6.0-9.1.hum1 aarch64, x8664 libattr-devel-2.6.0-9.1.hum1 aarch64, x8664 attr-2.6.0-9.1.hum1.src src Security Fixes: attr: CVE-2026-54371...

Symlink Attack

Overview libattr is a None Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack. via the getfattr or setfattr process. An attacker can gain elevated privileges by substituting a symbolic link for a pathname component during directory traversal, causing operations to be redirected to...

alternate samba package for Slackware 10.0

It was pointed out that the new Samba packages for Slackware 10.0 and -current have a dependency on libattr.so that wasn't in the previous packages. Since it's not the intent to introduce new requirements in security patches especially for stable versions, an alternate version of the samba packag...