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AlmaLinux security updates have been released for multiple software packages across versions 8 through 10. These advisories classify most fixes as important while a few kernel and rsync patches remain at moderate risk levels. The updates address serious flaws including heap buffer overflows, arbitrary code execution vectors, and potential privilege escalation issues found in libraries like libpng and GStreamer.

ALSA-2026:6445: libpng12 security update (Important)
ALSA-2026:6470: perl-YAML-Syck security update (Important)
ALSA-2026:6473: python3 security update (Important)
ALSA-2026:6005: freerdp security update (Important)
ALSA-2026:6388: grafana-pcp security update (Important)
ALSA-2026:6259: gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good, and gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free security update (Important)
ALSA-2026:6344: grafana security update (Important)
ALSA-2026:6053: kernel security update (Moderate)
ALSA-2026:6436: rsync security update (Moderate)
ALSA-2026:6439: libpng15 security update (Important)
ALSA-2026:6300: gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good, and gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free security update (Important)




ALSA-2026:6445: libpng12 security update (Important)


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AlmaLinux: 8
Type: Security
Severity: Important
Release date: 2026-04-03

Summary:

The libpng12 package provides libpng 1.2, which is the previous version of the libpng library for manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format files. This version should be used in case that it is not possible to use the current version of libpng.

Security Fix(es):

* libpng: LIBPNG has a heap buffer overflow in png_set_quantize (CVE-2026-25646)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information: https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2026-6445.html

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ALSA-2026:6470: perl-YAML-Syck security update (Important)


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AlmaLinux: 8
Type: Security
Severity: Important
Release date: 2026-04-03

Summary:

This module provides a Perl interface to the libsyck data serialization library. It exports the Dump and Load functions for converting Perl data structures to YAML strings, and the other way around.

Security Fix(es):

* perl-YAML-Syck: YAML::Syck versions through 1.36 for Perl has several potential security vulnerabilities including a high-severity heap buffer overflow in the YAML emitter (CVE-2026-4177)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information: https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2026-6470.html

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ALSA-2026:6473: python3 security update (Important)


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AlmaLinux: 8
Type: Security
Severity: Important
Release date: 2026-04-03

Summary:

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems.

Security Fix(es):

* python: Python: Command-line option injection in webbrowser.open() via crafted URLs (CVE-2026-4519)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information: https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2026-6473.html

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ALSA-2026:6005: freerdp security update (Important)


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AlmaLinux: 8
Type: Security
Severity: Important
Release date: 2026-04-02

Summary:

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license. The xfreerdp client can connect to RDP servers such as Microsoft Windows machines, xrdp, and VirtualBox.

Security Fix(es):

* freerdp: FreeRDP: Arbitrary code execution via heap out-of-bounds write in RLE planar decode path (CVE-2026-26965)
* freerdp: FreeRDP: Arbitrary code execution via heap buffer overflow in GDI surface pipeline (CVE-2026-26955)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information: https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2026-6005.html

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ALSA-2026:6388: grafana-pcp security update (Important)


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AlmaLinux: 10
Type: Security
Severity: Important
Release date: 2026-04-03

Summary:

The Grafana plugin for Performance Co-Pilot includes datasources for scalable time series from pmseries and Redis, live PCP metrics and bpftrace scripts from pmdabpftrace, as well as several dashboards.

Security Fix(es):

* net/url: Incorrect parsing of IPv6 host literals in net/url (CVE-2026-25679)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information: https://errata.almalinux.org/10/ALSA-2026-6388.html

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ALSA-2026:6259: gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good, and gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free security update (Important)


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AlmaLinux: 10
Type: Security
Severity: Important
Release date: 2026-04-03

Summary:

GStreamer is a streaming media framework based on graphs of filters which operate on media data. The gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free package contains a collection of plug-ins for GStreamer.

Security Fix(es):

* GStreamer: GStreamer: Arbitrary code execution via ASF file processing (CVE-2026-2920)
* GStreamer: GStreamer: Remote Code Execution via heap-based buffer overflow in JPEG parser (CVE-2026-3082)
* GStreamer: GStreamer: Remote Code Execution via Heap-based Buffer Overflow in rtpqdm2depay (CVE-2026-3085)
* GStreamer: GStreamer: Arbitrary code execution via RIFF palette integer overflow in AVI file handling (CVE-2026-2921)
* GStreamer: GStreamer: Remote Code Execution via Out-Of-Bounds Write in rtpqdm2depay (CVE-2026-3083)
* GStreamer: GStreamer: Remote Code Execution via out-of-bounds write in RealMedia Demuxer (CVE-2026-2922)
* GStreamer: GStreamer: Remote Code Execution via out-of-bounds write in DVB Subtitles handling (CVE-2026-2923)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information: https://errata.almalinux.org/10/ALSA-2026-6259.html

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ALSA-2026:6344: grafana security update (Important)


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AlmaLinux: 10
Type: Security
Severity: Important
Release date: 2026-04-03

Summary:

Grafana is an open source, feature rich metrics dashboard and graph editor for Graphite, InfluxDB & OpenTSDB.

Security Fix(es):

* net/url: Incorrect parsing of IPv6 host literals in net/url (CVE-2026-25679)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information: https://errata.almalinux.org/10/ALSA-2026-6344.html

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ALSA-2026:6053: kernel security update (Moderate)


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AlmaLinux: 10
Type: Security
Severity: Moderate
Release date: 2026-04-03

Summary:

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: kernel: Privilege escalation or denial of service via use-after-free in nf_tables_addchain() (CVE-2026-23231)
* kernel: Linux kernel (qla2xxx): Double free vulnerability leads to denial of service and potential privilege escalation. (CVE-2025-71238)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information: https://errata.almalinux.org/10/ALSA-2026-6053.html

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ALSA-2026:6436: rsync security update (Moderate)


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AlmaLinux: 8
Type: Security
Severity: Moderate
Release date: 2026-04-03

Summary:

The rsync utility enables the users to copy and synchronize files locally or across a network. Synchronization with rsync is fast because rsync only sends the differences in files over the network instead of sending whole files. The rsync utility is also used as a mirroring tool.

Security Fix(es):

* rsync: Rsync: Out of bounds array access via negative index (CVE-2025-10158)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information: https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2026-6436.html

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ALSA-2026:6439: libpng15 security update (Important)


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AlmaLinux: 8
Type: Security
Severity: Important
Release date: 2026-04-03

Summary:

The libpng15 package provides libpng 1.5, an older version of the libpng. library for manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format files. This version should be used only if you are unable to use the current version of libpng.

Security Fix(es):

* libpng: LIBPNG has a heap buffer overflow in png_set_quantize (CVE-2026-25646)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information: https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2026-6439.html

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ALSA-2026:6300: gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good, and gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free security update (Important)


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AlmaLinux: 9
Type: Security
Severity: Important
Release date: 2026-04-03

Summary:

GStreamer is a streaming media framework based on graphs of filters which operate on media data. The gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free package contains a collection of plug-ins for GStreamer.

Security Fix(es):

* GStreamer: GStreamer: Arbitrary code execution via ASF file processing (CVE-2026-2920)
* GStreamer: GStreamer: Remote Code Execution via heap-based buffer overflow in JPEG parser (CVE-2026-3082)
* GStreamer: GStreamer: Remote Code Execution via Heap-based Buffer Overflow in rtpqdm2depay (CVE-2026-3085)
* GStreamer: GStreamer: Arbitrary code execution via RIFF palette integer overflow in AVI file handling (CVE-2026-2921)
* GStreamer: GStreamer: Remote Code Execution via Out-Of-Bounds Write in rtpqdm2depay (CVE-2026-3083)
* GStreamer: GStreamer: Remote Code Execution via out-of-bounds write in RealMedia Demuxer (CVE-2026-2922)
* GStreamer: GStreamer: Remote Code Execution via out-of-bounds write in DVB Subtitles handling (CVE-2026-2923)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information: https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2026-6300.html

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