CVE-2026-71222CWE-125

CVE-2026-71222

Medium · published September 3, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00140 · 3.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read
Published
2026-09-03T17:06Z
Affected products (3)
ProductVersionsFixed in
redhat/enterprise_linuxall versions—
redhat/enterprise_linuxall versions—
redhat/enterprise_linuxall versions—
References (2)
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71222 · [email protected]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2511399 · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 SEP 03:44Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 03 SEP 12:23Z
    Gfs2-utils: gfs2-utils: heap out-of-bounds read via unchecked ea_num_ptrs in extended attribute processing
    cvelistv5