Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package rhcos  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-RHCOS-18543666
  • published5 Aug 2026
  • disclosed3 Aug 2026

Introduced: 3 Aug 2026

CVE-2026-68743  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rhcos package and not the rhcos package as distributed by RHEL.

A flaw was found in SSSD. The extract_authtok_v1() function in the PAM responder does not validate the auth_token_length field against the remaining buffer size before processing. A local attacker can exploit this via a crafted protocol v1 request to the PAM responder socket, causing an out-of-bounds read and process crash, resulting in a denial of service.