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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, causin
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 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-2026-71224
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2511397
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71224
Structured record: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-71224
Recommended response stack
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