Fedora 44 libmetal Critical Integer Overflow Threat 2026-37540
fedora
May 18, 2026
Update to 2026.04.0
Summary
An abstraction layer across user-space Linux, baremetal, and RTOS environments.
Update Information:
Update to 2026.04.0
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Mon May 4 2026 Peter Robinson
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2467993 - CVE-2026-37540 open-amp: OpenAMP: Integer overflow in ELF loader can lead to arbitrary code execution or privilege escalation [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2467993
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-c618807faa' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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Name: libmetal
Product: Fedora 44
Version: 2026.04.0
Release: 2.fc44
Summary: An abstraction layer across user-space Linux, baremetal, and RTOS environments
Topics Covered
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