DEBIAN-CVE-2026-71224

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-71224
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-71224.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-71224
Upstream
  • CVE-2026-71224
Published
2026-09-03T13:06:03Z
Modified
2026-09-14T17:03:30Z
Severity
  • 4.7 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:12 / gfs2-utils

Package

Name
gfs2-utils
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/gfs2-utils?arch=source&distro=bookworm

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*
3.5.0-2
3.5.1-1
3.5.1-2
3.6.0-1
3.6.1-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-71224.json"

Debian:13 / gfs2-utils

Package

Name
gfs2-utils
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/gfs2-utils?arch=source&distro=trixie

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*
3.6.1-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-71224.json"

Debian:14 / gfs2-utils

Package

Name
gfs2-utils
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/gfs2-utils?arch=source&distro=forky

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*
3.6.1-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-71224.json"