Vulnerabilities > CVE-2024-0217 - Use After Free vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
LOW Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0217
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0217
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2256624
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2256624
- https://github.com/PackageKit/PackageKit/commit/64278c9127e3333342b56ead99556161f7e86f79
- https://github.com/PackageKit/PackageKit/commit/64278c9127e3333342b56ead99556161f7e86f79