CVE-2026-71222

medium

Description

A heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability was found in gfs2-utils. The ea_num_ptrs field from on-disk extended attribute metadata is consumed without bounds validation, causing a heap buffer over-read that may disclose sensitive memory contents or cause a crash when processing crafted GFS2 filesystem images.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2511399

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71222

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-03

Updated: 2026-09-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00109