MEDIUM 4.7 NVD

CVE-2026-71224

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 met

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.

References

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

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

This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 4.7 was published on 2026-09-03 via NVD.

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