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A flaw was found in the SFTP backend in gvfs.

CVE-2026-84267

A flaw was found in the SFTP backend in gvfs. When mounting a share, a malicious SFTP server can cause readstring() to allocate a buffer with a certain length but the function does not verify that the buffer is completely filled, leaving the remainder of the buffer containing uninitialized heap contents. If the server sends a short FXPHANDLE reply, these uninitialized bytes are taken as the file handle. The client will then echo these uninitialized bytes back to the server on all subsequent requests using that handle. With a length of 128 bytes, this issue allows the malicious server to deterministically read uninitialized heap memory from the gvfsd-sftp process, leaking its heap base and the load address of the libgio library, resulting in a deterministic defeat of Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR).

Assessment

CVSS
4.3 (v3.1)
Severity
Medium
EPSS
0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Known exploited
Not listed in CISA KEV
Exploit availability
Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
Published
1 September 2026
Last updated
6 November 2026
Affected
Gnome · gvfs
Assigner
redhat

CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

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