CVE-2024-21795 (GCVE-0-2024-21795)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-20 15:29 – Updated: 2025-11-04 18:22
VLAI
Summary
A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the .egi parsing functionality of The Biosig Project libbiosig 2.5.0 and Master Branch (ab0ee111). A specially crafted .egi file can lead to arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-07-26 18:31 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
The Biosig Project libbiosig Affected: 2.5.0
Affected: Master Branch (ab0ee111)
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fedoraproject fedora Affected: 40
    cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:40:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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the_biosig_project libbiosig Affected: 2.5.0
    cpe:2.3:a:the_biosig_project:libbiosig:2.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Discovered by Lilith >_> of Cisco Talos.
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