{"id":"CVE-2026-71222","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-71222","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:29:03.584Z","title":"A heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability was found in gfs2-utils.","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.","published":"2026-09-03T13:06:03.000Z","lastModified":"2026-09-22T16:37:22.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"secalert@redhat.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.3,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-125"],"affected":["redhat/enterprise linux"],"epss":{"score":0.0011,"percentile":0.0127,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.11%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[{"kind":"scored","label":"Newly scored","at":"2026-09-22T18:15:08.000Z","detail":{"from":"5.3","score":"6.3","severity":"MEDIUM","fromSeverity":"MEDIUM"},"summary":"Now scored CVSS 6.3 MEDIUM (was 5.3)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71222","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2511399","tags":["Issue Tracking"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-71222","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}