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Rocky Linux 8 RLSA-2026-8502 libarchive Major Security Alert

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Calendar Grey April 18, 2026
Rockylinux Esm H88
Important libarchive security update for Rocky Linux 8 addresses potential code execution and information disclosure issues.
Important: libarchive security update

Summary

An update is available for libarchive. 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


RPMs

bsdtar-0:3.3.3-7.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

bsdtar-0:3.3.3-7.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

bsdtar-debuginfo-0:3.3.3-7.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

bsdtar-debuginfo-0:3.3.3-7.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

libarchive-0:3.3.3-7.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

libarchive-0:3.3.3-7.el8_10.i686.rpm

libarchive-0:3.3.3-7.el8_10.src.rpm

libarchive-0:3.3.3-7.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

libarchive-debuginfo-0:3.3.3-7.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

libarchive-debuginfo-0:3.3.3-7.el8_10.i686.rpm

libarchive-debuginfo-0:3.3.3-7.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

libarchive-debugsource-0:3.3.3-7.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

libarchive-debugsource-0:3.3.3-7.el8_10.i686.rpm

libarchive-debugsource-0:3.3.3-7.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

libarchive-devel-0:3.3.3-7.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

libarchive-devel-0:3.3.3-7.el8_10.i686.rpm

libarchive-devel-0:3.3.3-7.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

References

No references

CVES

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2026-4424

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2026-5121

Severity
important

Name: RLSA-2026:8534
Affected Products: Rocky Linux 8

Fixes

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2449006

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2452945


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