CVE-2024-42415

Summary

CVE-2024-42415 is an integer overflow vulnerability discovered in the Compound Document Binary File format parser of GNOME Project's G Structured File Library (libgsf) version 1.14.52. Maliciously crafted files can cause an integer overflow in the sector allocation table processing, resulting in a heap-based buffer overflow. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code by providing a specially crafted file to the affected system. This issue poses a serious security risk and requires immediate attention and patching from users and administrators.

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