MEDIUM 5.3 NVD

CVE-2026-71222

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 valid

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.

References

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

Published: 2026-09-03 · Source: NVD · Feed updated: 2026-09-03

This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.3 was published on 2026-09-03 via NVD.

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