Important: gvfs security update
GVFS is the GNOME Desktop Virtual File System layer that allows users to easily access local and remote data using File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Secure Shell File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV), Common Internet File System (CIFS), Server Message Block (SMB), and other protocols. GVFS integrates with the GNOME I/O (GIO) abstraction layer. Security Fix(es): * gvfs: SFTP: heap-based buffer overflow in read_reply() (CVE-2026-84268) 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.
RLSA-2026:73997
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: osv:RLSA-2026:73997
gvfs
Source reference: /affected/0/package/name
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- 0:1.36.2-22.el8_10
Source reference:
/affected/0/ranges - Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
[
{
"ranges": [
{
"type": "ECOSYSTEM",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "0:1.36.2-22.el8_10"
}
],
"database_specific": {
"yum_repository": "AppStream"
}
}
],
"package": {
"name": "gvfs",
"purl": "pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/gvfs?distro=rocky-linux-8&epoch=0",
"ecosystem": "Rocky Linux:8"
},
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2026:73997.json"
}
}
]Publisher severity
No explicit severity was provided.
- Event
- #59334 · Revision 1
- Added to Heist Feed
- Publisher date