Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting gfs2-utils package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-GFS2UTILS-19518406
  • published4 Sept 2026
  • disclosed3 Sept 2026

Introduced: 3 Sep 2026

CVE-2026-71219  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:13 gfs2-utils.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gfs2-utils package and not the gfs2-utils package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1