CVE-2026-84270
mediumA flaw was found in the MTP backend in gvfs.
A flaw was found in the MTP backend in gvfs. When reading a file from a mounted MTP device, do_read() in gvfsbackendmtp.c trusts the data length returned by the device without limiting it to the original size requested by the client. If a malicious MTP device responds with more bytes than requested, this unrestricted length is passed directly to memcpy(). This causes the operation to read memory outside the intended boundaries. This allows an attacker who plugs in a malicious MTP device to cause a segmentation fault when a file is read and crash the gvfsd-mtp process, resulting in a denial of service.
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Affected products
Not reported by the source (unknown — not "none").
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-84270 secalert@redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2526794 secalert@redhat.com
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/-/issues/864 secalert@redhat.com
