CVE-2026-71222: Out-of-bounds Read in Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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.
CVE-2026-71222: Out-of-bounds Read in Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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.
CVSS v3.1
Score 5.3medium
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- redhat
- Date Reserved
- 2026-08-05T08:51:19.853Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
- Vendor Advisory Urls
- [{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71222","vendor":"Red Hat"}]
Threat ID: 6a996db2acd9273b49ef4478
Added to database: 09/03/2026, 12:53:06 UTC
Last updated: 09/03/2026, 12:53:06 UTC
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