CVE-2026-71224

medium Red Hat
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.7
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Published: September 3, 2026 (3 days ago)
Last Modified: September 3, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat
Source: REDHAT

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.

CWE

CWE-770

Affected Products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

References

🔗 bugzilla.redhat.com 🔗 www.cve.org 🔗 nvd.nist.gov