CVE-2026-71224
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CVE-2026-71224 is a medium-severity vulnerability rated 4.7/10 on the CVSS scale. 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.. EPSS estimates a 0.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Metrics
Weakness Enumeration
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux | 7.0 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux | 8.0 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux | 9.0 |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71224Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2511397Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Timeline
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- Status
- Analyzed
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