Issued:

2026-08-20

Updated:

2026-08-20

RHSA-2026:57775 - Important: dracut security update

Synopsis

Important: dracut security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for dracut is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

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 dracut packages contain an event-driven initial RAM file system (initramfs) generator infrastructure based on the udev device manager. The virtual file system, initramfs, is loaded together with the kernel at boot time and initializes the system, so it can read and boot from the root partition.

Security Fix(es):

• dracut: dracut: Root code execution via DHCP options command injection (CVE-2026-6893)

• dracut: dracut: root code execution via unescaped error message written to sourced emergency hook script in die() (CVE-2026-15816)

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

• dracut-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.s390x.rpm
• dracut-config-rescue-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.aarch64.rpm
• dracut-caps-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.aarch64.rpm
• dracut-debugsource-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.x86_64.rpm
• dracut-live-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.x86_64.rpm
• dracut-debuginfo-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.aarch64.rpm
• dracut-config-generic-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.x86_64.rpm
• dracut-network-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.aarch64.rpm
• dracut-config-rescue-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.ppc64le.rpm
• dracut-squash-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.s390x.rpm
• dracut-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.ppc64le.rpm
• dracut-debuginfo-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.s390x.rpm
• dracut-squash-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.aarch64.rpm
• dracut-tools-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.x86_64.rpm
• dracut-config-generic-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.aarch64.rpm
• dracut-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.aarch64.rpm
• dracut-live-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.aarch64.rpm
• dracut-caps-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.s390x.rpm
• dracut-live-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.ppc64le.rpm
• dracut-config-rescue-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.x86_64.rpm
• dracut-squash-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.x86_64.rpm
• dracut-caps-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.x86_64.rpm
• dracut-tools-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.s390x.rpm
• dracut-live-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.s390x.rpm
• dracut-squash-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.ppc64le.rpm
• dracut-network-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.x86_64.rpm
• dracut-network-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.s390x.rpm
• dracut-caps-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.ppc64le.rpm
• dracut-debugsource-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.aarch64.rpm
• dracut-debugsource-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.s390x.rpm
• dracut-debugsource-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.ppc64le.rpm
• dracut-network-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.ppc64le.rpm
• dracut-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.src.rpm
• dracut-debuginfo-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.ppc64le.rpm
• dracut-debuginfo-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.x86_64.rpm
• dracut-tools-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.ppc64le.rpm
• dracut-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.x86_64.rpm
• dracut-config-rescue-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.s390x.rpm
• dracut-tools-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.aarch64.rpm
• dracut-config-generic-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.ppc64le.rpm
• dracut-config-generic-057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2.s390x.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 2459963
• This content is not included.BZ - 2500889

CVEs

• CVE-2026-6893
• CVE-2026-15816

References

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

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at Security Contacts and Procedures.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.