VulnerabilityUndergoing Analysis

CVE-2026-71222

A heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability was found in gfs2-utils.

MEDIUM 5.3EPSS 0.11%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.11%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

A heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability was found in gfs2-utils. The ea_num_ptrs field from on-disk extended attribute metadata is consumed without bounds validation, causing a heap buffer over-read that may disclose sensitive memory contents or cause a crash when processing crafted GFS2 filesystem images.

CVSS 3.1: 5.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L
EPSS: 0.11% probability · 1th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-125
Source: secalert@redhat.com

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71222
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2511399

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.