CVE-2026-71222

medium

Assigned by CNA: redhat

Published 2026-09-03 · Modified 2026-09-03

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CVSS v3

5.3

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

53%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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References

CWEs

CWE-125

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.