CVE-2026-24799

A heap-based buffer over-read or buffer overflow in davisking/dlib

State: Published
Severity: 5.2 Medium
Published: Jan 27, 2026
Updated: Jan 27, 2026
Reserved: Jan 27, 2026

Description

Out-of-bounds Write, Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow') vulnerability in davisking dlib (dlib/external/zlib modules). This vulnerability is associated with program files inflate.C.

This issue affects dlib: before v19.24.9.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	5.2 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:L/SA:L/S:N/AU:Y/R:U/V:C/RE:L/U:Amber	GovTech CSG

Weaknesses

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
dlibdavisking	before v19.24.9Affected

References

https://github.com/davisking/dlib/pull/3063patch

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