VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2026-71224

CVSS score4.7 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.14%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-09-03
Last modified2026-09-22
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

A stack overflow vulnerability was found in gfs2-utils. The metadata walk code in metawalk.c uses alloca() with an untrusted inode height value from on-disk metadata without bounds validation, causing stack exhaustion and a denial of service when processing crafted GFS2 filesystem images.

Weakness classification

  • secalert@redhat.com: CWE-770

Primary references