What is CVE-2024-50610?

CVE-2024-50610 is a low-severity vulnerability in GNU Scientific Library, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 3.6/10. Published 2024-10-27.

How severe is CVE-2024-50610?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.6 out of 10.

Integer overflow in GNU Scientific Library

CVE-2024-50610

GSL (GNU Scientific Library) through 2.8 has an integer signedness error in gsl_siman_solve_many in siman/siman.c. When params.n_tries is negative, incorrect memory allocation occurs.

Vulnerability class: Integer Overflow

Published 2024-10-27 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.6 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (18.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 19th percentile — 18.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

GNU Scientific Library

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-190 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

github.com/silviadefra/GolDRuSh/blob/main/vulnerabilities/gsl.md (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gsl.git/log/siman/siman.c (Product)
www.gnu.org/software/gsl/doc/html/siman.html (Product)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-50610?: CVE-2024-50610 is a low-severity vulnerability in GNU Scientific Library, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 3.6/10. Published 2024-10-27.
How severe is CVE-2024-50610?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.6 out of 10.