CVE-2026-71224

Published Sep 3, 2026

Last updated 6 hours ago

Overview

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.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Analyzed
Products
enterprise_linux

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
4.7
Impact score
3.6
Exploitability score
1
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity
MEDIUM

Weaknesses

secalert@redhat.com
CWE-770

Social media

Hype score
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Configurations