Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Sep 3, 2026

CVE-2026-71222

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.

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Affected products

Red Hat/Gfs2 Utilsllm-fuzzy

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References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71222nvd
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvd

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