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GHSA-G3JM-7W7W-RF6F

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-01-03 18:30 – Updated: 2024-01-03 18:30

Details

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.

Severity

3.3 (Low)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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CVE-2024-0217 (GCVE-0-2024-0217)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-03 17:04 – Updated: 2025-11-21 06:24

Title

Packagekitd: use-after-free in idle function callback

Summary

Severity

3.3 (Low)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-08-26 18:34 UTC

CWE

CWE-416 - Use After Free

Assigner

redhat redhat root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0217	vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2256624	issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
https://github.com/PackageKit/PackageKit/commit/6…

Impacted products

5 products

Vendor	Product	Version
		Affected: 1.2.0 , < 1.2.7 (semver)
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

Date Public

2024-01-03 00:00

Credits

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

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