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Rocky Linux 8 acl Important Symlink Escalation RLSA-2026-43420
rocky
July 23, 2026
A security update for acl on Rocky Linux 8 addresses vulnerabilities related to privilege escalation and symlink traversal, with CVE scores indicating significant risk levels.
Summary
An update is available for acl. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list
Topics Covered
RPMs
acl-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
acl-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.src.rpm
acl-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
acl-debuginfo-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
acl-debuginfo-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.i686.rpm
acl-debuginfo-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
acl-debugsource-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
acl-debugsource-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.i686.rpm
acl-debugsource-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
libacl-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
libacl-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.i686.rpm
libacl-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
libacl-debuginfo-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
libacl-debuginfo-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.i686.rpm
libacl-debuginfo-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
libacl-devel-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
libacl-devel-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.i686.rpm
libacl-devel-0:2.4.0-1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
References
No references
CVES
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2026-54369
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2026-54370
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important
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Name: RLSA-2026:43420
Affected Products: Rocky Linux 8
Fixes
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2490277
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2490279
Topics Covered
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