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A stack out-of-bounds write vulnerability was found in gfs2-utils. In savemeta, the height value from on-disk inode metadata is used as a loop bound without bounds checking, causing a stack buffer ov
A stack out-of-bounds write vulnerability was found in gfs2-utils. In savemeta, the height value from on-disk inode metadata is used as a loop bound without bounds checking, causing a stack buffer overflow that may lead to arbitrary code execution when processing crafted GFS2 filesystem images.
Affected packages
- gfs2-utils
Exploit signal
- Known exploited (CISA KEV)
- No
- EPSS score
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- EPSS percentile
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Sources
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-71221
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2511396
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71221
Structured record: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-71221
Recommended response stack
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