Security Advisory

CVE-2026-71224

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-09-03 12:23:31
Last updated 2026-09-03 12:58:06
Assigner redhat
CVSS score 4.7
State PUBLISHED

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.