Issued:

2026-02-09

Updated:

2026-02-09

RHSA-2026:2221 - Important: fence-agents security update

Synopsis

Important: fence-agents security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for fence-agents is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Service.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The fence-agents packages provide a collection of scripts for handling remote power management for cluster devices. They allow failed or unreachable nodes to be forcibly restarted and removed from the cluster.

Security Fix(es):

• pyasn1: pyasn1: Denial of Service due to memory exhaustion from malformed RELATIVE-OID (CVE-2026-23490)

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.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• fence-agents-kdump-debuginfo-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.x86_64.rpm
• fence-agents-scsi-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-gce-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-wti-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-azure-arm-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-debuginfo-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.ppc64le.rpm
• fence-agents-ibm-vpc-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-kdump-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.x86_64.rpm
• fence-agents-compute-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-apc-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-bladecenter-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-aws-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-ibmblade-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-rhevm-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-all-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.ppc64le.rpm
• fence-agents-brocade-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-ilo2-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-kubevirt-debuginfo-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.ppc64le.rpm
• fence-agents-vmware-rest-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-common-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-kubevirt-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.x86_64.rpm
• fence-agents-cisco-ucs-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-debugsource-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.x86_64.rpm
• fence-agents-ipdu-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-heuristics-ping-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-kdump-debuginfo-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.ppc64le.rpm
• fence-agents-kubevirt-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.ppc64le.rpm
• fence-agents-debuginfo-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.x86_64.rpm
• fence-agents-aliyun-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.x86_64.rpm
• fence-agents-openstack-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.x86_64.rpm
• fence-agents-redfish-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.x86_64.rpm
• fence-agents-hpblade-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-eaton-snmp-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-intelmodular-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-sbd-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-rsb-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-drac5-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-emerson-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-ilo-ssh-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-lpar-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-ipmilan-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-rsa-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-ilo-mp-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-openstack-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.ppc64le.rpm
• fence-agents-kubevirt-debuginfo-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.x86_64.rpm
• fence-agents-vmware-soap-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-eps-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-nutanix-ahv-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.src.rpm
• fence-agents-all-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.x86_64.rpm
• fence-agents-kdump-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.ppc64le.rpm
• fence-agents-ilo-moonshot-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-ibm-powervs-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-ifmib-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-mpath-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-debugsource-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.ppc64le.rpm
• fence-agents-cisco-mds-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-apc-snmp-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-virsh-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-aliyun-debuginfo-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.x86_64.rpm
• fence-agents-amt-ws-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.noarch.rpm
• fence-agents-redfish-4.2.1-112.el8_8.16.ppc64le.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 2430472

CVEs

• CVE-2026-23490

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Additional information

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