CVE-2026-71220

7.0 highEPSS 0.1%

High (7.0) in redhat enterprise linux. EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A stack out-of-bounds write vulnerability was found in gfs2-utils. In gfs2_edit, the di_height field from on-disk inode metadata is used as an array index without bounds checking, causing a stack buffer overflow that may lead to arbitrary code execution when processing crafted GFS2 filesystem images.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.0 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 2% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-787
Published: 2026-09-03
Modified: 2026-09-22
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

redhat:enterprise_linux

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71220
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2511398

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