CVE-2026-71219

A stack overflow vulnerability was found in gfs2-utils. The hash table traversal code in metawalk.c uses alloca() with an exponentially-derived size from the untrusted on-disk di_depth field without bounds validation. A crafted GFS2 filesystem image with a large di_depth value causes stack exhaustion and a denial of service when processed by fsck.gfs2, gfs2_edit, or savemeta.

  • Published Sep 3, 2026
  • CVSS 4.7 medium
  • 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS)

Affected software

CVE-2026-71219 at the National Vulnerability Database