What is CVE-2026-71224?

CVE-2026-71224 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2026-09-03.

How severe is CVE-2026-71224?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

CVE-2026-71224

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.

EPSS: 0.001 (1.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vdb-entry)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, issue-tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-71224?: CVE-2026-71224 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2026-09-03.
How severe is CVE-2026-71224?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.