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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2024-24685

Multiple stack-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities exist in the readOFF functionality of libigl v2.5.0. A specially crafted .off file can lead to stack-based buffer overflow. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.This vulnerability concerns the parsing of comments within the vertex section of an `.off` file processed via the `readOFF` function.

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2 Nov 2026, 23:05 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2024-24685

core-osv · Original source

Published 28 May 2024, 14:02 UTC

Multiple stack-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities exist in the readOFF functionality of libigl v2.5.0. A specially crafted .off file can lead to stack-based buffer overflow. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.This vulnerability concerns the parsing of comments within the vertex section of an `.off` file processed via the `readOFF` function.

osv:CVE-2024-24685
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-24685",
  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "Multiple stack-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities exist in the readOFF functionality of libigl v2.5.0. A specially crafted .off file can lead to stack-based buffer overflow. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.This vulnerability concerns the parsing of comments within the vertex section of an `.off` file processed via the `readOFF` function.",
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  "published_at": "2024-05-28T14:02:40.055+00:00"
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