PT-2026-85020 · Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7+2

CVE-2026-71224

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Published

2026-09-03

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Updated

2026-09-03

CVSS v3.1

4.7

Medium

VectorAV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.

Fix

Allocation of Resources Without Limits

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-71224

Affected Products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9