Red Hat refreshes JBoss EAP containers for SQLite code-execution fixes
Updated EAP 8.1 and 7.4 ELS images require consumers to pull new containers and rebuild anything derived from them.
Red Hat has published refreshed container images for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1 on RHEL 9 and JBoss EAP 7.4 Extended Life Cycle Support on RHEL 8. Both advisories were issued August 27 and direct users to replace affected images and rebuild downstream containers (EAP 8.1 advisory; EAP 7.4 ELS advisory).
What changed
The EAP 8.1 refresh updates OpenJDK 17 and OpenJDK 21 builder and runtime images across aarch64, ppc64le, s390x and x86_64. Red Hat says those images incorporate backported fixes from RHSA-2026:58936 (EAP 8.1 advisory).
The EAP 7.4 ELS refresh similarly updates OpenJDK 8, 11 and 17 image variants where available, with backported fixes tied to RHSA-2026:58938 (EAP 7.4 ELS advisory).
Both container advisories identify CVE-2026-11822 and CVE-2026-11824 in SQLite FTS5. Red Hat describes the flaws as allowing arbitrary code execution through crafted full-text-search data; the second also carries a heap-buffer-overflow crash path (EAP 8.1 advisory; EAP 7.4 ELS advisory).
Who it affects
The update applies to teams consuming the listed JBoss EAP container images from Red Hat’s registry. It also affects application images built FROM those EAP images, because replacing the base image does not update already-built descendants (EAP 8.1 advisory).
What to do
Red Hat advises users to pull the updated images and amend Dockerfiles or build scripts to select the new image specifically or track the latest image. Teams should then rebuild and redeploy every dependent application image so the corrected SQLite packages reach running workloads (EAP 8.1 advisory; EAP 7.4 ELS advisory).
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