CVE-2026-84270

medium

Description

A flaw was found in the MTP backend in gvfs. When reading a file from a mounted MTP device, do_read() in gvfsbackendmtp.c trusts the data length returned by the device without limiting it to the original size requested by the client. If a malicious MTP device responds with more bytes than requested, this unrestricted length is passed directly to memcpy(). This causes the operation to read memory outside the intended boundaries. This allows an attacker who plugs in a malicious MTP device to cause a segmentation fault when a file is read and crash the gvfsd-mtp process, resulting in a denial of service.

References

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/-/issues/864

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2526794

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-84270

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-01

Updated: 2026-09-01

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium