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CVE-2026-71224

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 24/100
Published: 2026-09-03 Modified: 2026-11-05 First seen: 2026-11-05 Status: active

Attack Surface

No Auth

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: High
PR: None
UI: Required
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

Description

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.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (3)

VendorProductVersion
redhat enterprise_linux 7.0
redhat enterprise_linux 8.0
redhat enterprise_linux 9.0

References & Advisories (2)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2511397
issue-tracking x_refsource_REDHAT

Bug Bounty Relevance

24 / 100
✓ No authentication

CVSS Score

4.7 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.14%
Raw Score 0.001430
Percentile 3.7%
Date 2026-11-13

EPSS Trend

2026-11-13
0.00143
2026-11-12
0.00143
2026-11-10
0.00143
2026-11-09
0.00143
2026-11-08
0.00143
2026-11-07
0.00143
2026-11-06
0.00143
2026-11-05
0.00143

Intelligence Sources

mitre ref →
nvd ref →

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