[El-errata] ELSA-2026-16252 Important: Oracle Linux 8 jq security update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2026-16252

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2026-16252.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
jq-1.6-12.el8_10.i686.rpm
jq-1.6-12.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
jq-devel-1.6-12.el8_10.i686.rpm
jq-devel-1.6-12.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

aarch64:
jq-1.6-12.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
jq-devel-1.6-12.el8_10.aarch64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/jq-1.6-12.el8_10.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2026-39979
CVE-2026-40164




Description of changes:

[1.6-12]
- Fix CVE-2026-40164 - Denial of Service via crafted JSON object causing hash collisions
- Fix CVE-2026-39979 out-of-bounds read in jv_parse_sized()
- Resolves: RHEL-168174
- Resolves: RHEL-168192