RHSA-2025:23729

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2025-12-22 00:22 - Updated: 2026-01-08 02:35
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: opentelemetry-collector security update

Notes

Topic
An update for opentelemetry-collector is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. 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.
Details
Collector with the supported components for a Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry Security Fix(es): * github.com/expr-lang/expr: Expr: Denial of Service via uncontrolled recursion in expression evaluation (CVE-2025-68156) 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.
Terms of Use
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