CVE-2026-84270
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.
What this means for your business
- An attacker can use it only with physical access to the device, without a login, but only after tricking someone into an action such as opening a file or a link.
- FIRST's prediction model gives it a 0.1% chance of attack attempts being seen in the next 30 days, ranking above 4% of all known flaws.
What to do
- 1Ask your IT team or provider whether any of your systems use the affected product.
- 2If you do, follow the vendor's guidance. No patch reference has been published yet.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- 4.3 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H- Weakness
- CWE-125
- Assigned by
- secalert@redhat.com
Dates
- Published
- 2026-09-01
- Last modified
- 2026-09-02
- Sources
- NVD