CVE-2026-71222

6.3 mediumEPSS 0.1%

Medium (6.3) in redhat enterprise linux. EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.3 medium

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

EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 1% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-125
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-2026-71222
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2511399

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