RHSA-2026:85941HighCVSS 8.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: gvfs security update

Published
October 20, 2026
Last Modified
October 20, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2026-84268 →CVE-2026-88924 →

📋 Description

CVE-2026-84268 — gvfs: SFTP: heap-based buffer overflow in read_reply() CVE-2026-88924 — gvfs: gvfs-admin socket ownership race permits local root

🎯 Affected products58

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • gvfs-0:1.54.4-2.el10_0.2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • gvfs-0:1.54.4-2.el10_0.2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • gvfs-0:1.54.4-2.el10_0.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • gvfs-0:1.54.4-2.el10_0.2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • gvfs-0:1.54.4-2.el10_0.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • gvfs-client-0:1.54.4-2.el10_0.2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • gvfs-client-0:1.54.4-2.el10_0.2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • gvfs-client-0:1.54.4-2.el10_0.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • gvfs-client-0:1.54.4-2.el10_0.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • gvfs-client-debuginfo-0:1.54.4-2.el10_0.2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • gvfs-client-debuginfo-0:1.54.4-2.el10_0.2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • gvfs-client-debuginfo-0:1.54.4-2.el10_0.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • gvfs-client-debuginfo-0:1.54.4-2.el10_0.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • gvfs-debuginfo-0:1.54.4-2.el10_0.2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • gvfs-debuginfo-0:1.54.4-2.el10_0.2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • gvfs-debuginfo-0:1.54.4-2.el10_0.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • gvfs-debuginfo-0:1.54.4-2.el10_0.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • gvfs-debugsource-0:1.54.4-2.el10_0.2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • gvfs-debugsource-0:1.54.4-2.el10_0.2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • gvfs-debugsource-0:1.54.4-2.el10_0.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • gvfs-debugsource-0:1.54.4-2.el10_0.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • gvfs-fuse-0:1.54.4-2.el10_0.2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • gvfs-fuse-0:1.54.4-2.el10_0.2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • gvfs-fuse-0:1.54.4-2.el10_0.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • gvfs-fuse-0:1.54.4-2.el10_0.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • gvfs-fuse-debuginfo-0:1.54.4-2.el10_0.2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • gvfs-fuse-debuginfo-0:1.54.4-2.el10_0.2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • gvfs-fuse-debuginfo-0:1.54.4-2.el10_0.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • gvfs-fuse-debuginfo-0:1.54.4-2.el10_0.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: To mitigate this vulnerability, do not connect to untrusted SFTP servers. Workaround: To mitigate this issue, adjust Polkit rules to require password authentication to start gvfsd-admin or remove execute permissions of the gvfsd-admin binary to prevent execution.

🔗 References (5)