CVE-2026-71224 [MEDIUM] – A stack overflow vulnerability was found in gfs2-utils. The metadata walk code in metawalk

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.