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CVE-2024-36474
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2024-10-03 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-190
Description
An integer overflow vulnerability exists in the Compound Document Binary File format parser of the GNOME Project G Structured File Library (libgsf) version v1.14.52. A specially crafted file can result in an integer overflow when processing the directory from the file that allows for an out-of-bounds index to be used when reading and writing to an array. This can lead to arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.
Affected products
References
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgsf/-/issues/34
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2068
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/10/msg00002.html
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2068
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