Is CVE-2026-71222 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-71222?

CVE-2026-71222 has a CVSS v3 severity of MEDIUM (5.3).

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CVE-2026-71222

Description

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.