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CVE-2026-18739 A flaw was found in popt, a command-line option parsing library

Description

A flaw was found in popt, a command-line option parsing library. An off-by-one error in the poptStuffArgs function, when repeatedly called by a host application or through deep alias nesting, can lead to corruption of internal program data. This corruption could potentially enable a local attacker to execute arbitrary code if the host application then unsafely processes the altered data.

Affected products and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Versions not published
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Versions not published
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Versions not published
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Versions not published
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Versions not published
Red Hat Hardened Images 1.19 earliest → < 1.19-11.1.hum1 1.19-11.1.hum1
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Versions not published
popt 1.1 1.1.1 → latest No fix stated

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