Merge Checklist

All boxes should be checked before merging the PR (just tick any boxes which don't apply to this PR)

• The toolchain has been rebuilt successfully (or no changes were made to it)
• The toolchain/worker package manifests are up-to-date
• Any updated packages successfully build (or no packages were changed)
• Packages depending on static components modified in this PR (Golang, *-static subpackages, etc.) have had their Release tag incremented.
• Package tests (%check section) have been verified with RUN_CHECK=y for existing SPEC files, or added to new SPEC files
• All package sources are available
• cgmanifest files are up-to-date and sorted (./cgmanifest.json, ./toolkit/scripts/toolchain/cgmanifest.json, .github/workflows/cgmanifest.json)
• LICENSE-MAP files are up-to-date (./LICENSES-AND-NOTICES/SPECS/data/licenses.json, ./LICENSES-AND-NOTICES/SPECS/LICENSES-MAP.md, ./LICENSES-AND-NOTICES/SPECS/LICENSE-EXCEPTIONS.PHOTON)
• All source files have up-to-date hashes in the *.signatures.json files
• sudo make go-tidy-all and sudo make go-test-coverage pass
• Documentation has been updated to match any changes to the build system
• Ready to merge

Summary

Patch systemd for CVE-2026-40226
GH advisories (GHSA-9mj4-rrc3-gjcx) mentioned that these 2 commits will fix the CVE.
Patch reference:

1. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/773fd3b6e72e6c83cbb1cfc1cb20f3793db8649a.patch
2. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/bfa0a842822c4f79da9d47f8a773fd128d8f8a0a.patch

Patch applies cleanly. No backporting is done.

Change Log

• new file: SPECS/systemd/CVE-2026-40226.patch
• modified: SPECS/systemd/systemd.spec

Does this affect the toolchain?

NO

Associated issues

• #xxxx

Links to CVEs

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40226

Test Methodology

• Local Build.
• Patch applies cleanly.