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CVE-2026-71224

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.7 Published: 2026-09-03 Modified: 2026-09-03

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.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-770

References