CWE-911

Improper Update of Reference Count

The product uses a reference count to manage a resource, but it does not update or incorrectly updates the reference count.

CVE-2024-45783 (GCVE-0-2024-45783)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-18 19:26 – Updated: 2025-11-19 11:14
VLAI
Title
Grub2: fs/hfs+: refcount can be decremented twice
Summary
A flaw was found in grub2. When failing to mount an HFS+ grub, the hfsplus filesystem driver doesn't properly set an ERRNO value. This issue may lead to a NULL pointer access.
Severity
4.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-911 - Improper Update of Reference Count
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-45783 vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2345863 issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.12 (semver)
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Unaffected: 1:2.06-104.el9_6 , < * (rpm)
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
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Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4
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Date Public
2025-02-18 18:00
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CVE-2024-46972 (GCVE-0-2024-46972)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-28 04:53 – Updated: 2025-03-13 13:48
VLAI
Title
GPU DDK - Security: Reference count overflow in pvr_sync_rollback_export_fence
Summary
Software installed and run as a non-privileged user may conduct improper GPU system calls to trigger use-after-free kernel exceptions.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-911 - CWE - CWE-911: Improper Update of Reference Count
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Imagination Technologies Graphics DDK Affected: 24.1 RTM (custom)
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