CVE-2026-71224

4.7 mediumEPSS 0.1%

Medium (4.7) in redhat enterprise linux. EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

4.7 medium

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

EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 3% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-770
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-2026-71224
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2511397

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