CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-42415
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-10-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-190
Description
An integer overflow vulnerability exists in the Compound Document Binary File format parser of v1.14.52 of the GNOME Project G Structured File Library (libgsf). A specially crafted file can result in an integer overflow that allows for a heap-based buffer overflow when processing the sector allocation table. This can lead to arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.
Affected configurations
• gnome libgsf 1.14.52
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
References
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgsf/-/issues/34 Issue Tracking
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2069 Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/10/04/3 www.openwall.com
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/10/msg00002.html lists.debian.org
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2069 www.talosintelligence.com