Packagekitd: use-after-free in idle function callback
CVE-2024-0217

3.3LOW

Key Information:

Status
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Vendor
CVE Published:
3 January 2024

What is CVE-2024-0217?

A use-after-free flaw was found in PackageKitd. In some conditions, the order of cleanup mechanics for a transaction could be impacted. As a result, some memory access could occur on memory regions that were previously freed. Once freed, a memory region can be reused for other allocations and any previously stored data in this memory region is considered lost.

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0217
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2256624
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https://github.com/PackageKit/PackageKit/commit/64278c912...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
3.3
Severity:
LOW
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

This issue was discovered by Thibault Guittet (Red Hat).
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