CVE-2026-71224

🔶 medium

Summary

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.

CVSS Score

4.7

Medium

EPSS Score

0.1

Exploit Probability

Published Date

2026-09-03

First Seen: 2026-09-04

📊 Relative Risk Intelligence

This CVE is Lower Risk - more severe than 13.5% of all 365,891 vulnerabilities in our database.

#316,592

Below average severity

Severity Percentile

🎯 CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: Sep 3, 2026

🔍 Exploitation Status

None

No known exploits

⚙️ Automatable

Requires human interaction

💥 Technical Impact

Partial

Limited system impact

🏆 Discovered By

Red Hat would like to thank Tristan Madani (Talence Security) for reporting this issue.

SSVC data provided by CISA

Last Modified 2026-09-22

Source NVD 🔗

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

CWE IDs (Weakness Types)

CWE-770

📦 Affected Products 3

Vendor	Product	Status	Affected Versions
redhat	enterprise_linux	Affected	v7.0
redhat	enterprise_linux	Affected	v8.0
redhat	enterprise_linux	Affected	v9.0

🔗 References 2

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71224

Vendor Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2511397

Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory

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