RLSA-2026:33226 Moderate: glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update

The glibc packages provide the standard C libraries libc, POSIX thread libraries libpthread, standard math libraries libm, and the name service cache daemon nscd used by multiple programs on the system. Without these libraries, the Linux system cannot function correctly. Security Fixes: glibc:...

CVE-2026-5450

CVE-2026-5450 affects the GNU C Library (glibc) where using the scanf family with a %mc format specifier and an explicit width greater than 1024 can trigger a one-byte heap buffer overflow in glibc versions 2.7 through 2.43. Exploitation details are not provided in the sources. Red Hat notes that...