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CVE-2026-71219

A stack overflow vulnerability was found in gfs2-utils.

MEDIUM 4.7EPSS 0.12%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.12%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

A stack overflow vulnerability was found in gfs2-utils. The hash table traversal code in metawalk.c uses alloca() with an exponentially-derived size from the untrusted on-disk di_depth field without bounds validation. A crafted GFS2 filesystem image with a large di_depth value causes stack exhaustion and a denial of service when processed by fsck.gfs2, gfs2_edit, or savemeta.

CVSS 3.1
4.7 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.12% probability · 2th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-770
Source
secalert@redhat.com

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