THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-71222 (MEDIUM 5.3) — 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 craf
[NVD] CVE-2026-71222 (MEDIUM 5.3) — 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 craf
CVE-2026-71222 CVSS: 5.3 MEDIUM Published: 2026-09-03T13:06:03.050
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.
Indicators of compromise
- CVE-2026-71222cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-71222