VulnerabilityUndergoing Analysis

CVE-2026-71224

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 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.

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

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71224
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2511397

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