Security Advisory
CVE-2026-71224
4.7
MEDIUM
Vulnerability 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.
Published Date
September 3, 2026
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory