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CVE-2024-21795

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-02-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-122

Description

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.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 40
• The Biosig Project libbiosig: 2.5.0

References

• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-1920
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OIRLGNQM33KAWVWP5RPMAPHWNP3IY5YW/
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-1920
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-1920

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