CVE-2024-21812

State: Published
Severity: 9.8 Critical
Published: Feb 20, 2024
Updated: Nov 4, 2025
Reserved: Jan 23, 2024

Description

An integer overflow vulnerability exists in the sopen_FAMOS_read functionality of The Biosig Project libbiosig 2.5.0 and Master Branch (ab0ee111). A specially crafted .famos file can lead to an out-of-bounds write which in turn can lead to arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.8 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	talos

Weaknesses

CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Affected Products

Product	Versions
libbiosigThe Biosig Project	2.5.0Affected Master Branch (ab0ee111)Affected

References

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-1921
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OIRLGNQM33KAWVWP5RPMAPHWNP3IY5YW/
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-1921

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