CVE-2024-0217

LOW

PackageKit < 1.2.7 - Use-After-Free in Transaction Cleanup

Title source: llm

Description

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.

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

Patch

https://github.com/PackageKit/PackageKit/commit/64278c9127e3333342b56ead99556161f7e86f79

View Patch ZIP pw:eip

Mitigation, Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_redhat

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0217

Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory issue-tracking x_refsource_redhat

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2256624

Scores

CVSS v3 3.3

EPSS 0.0001

EPSS Percentile 2.5%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-416

Status published

Products (4)

fedoraproject/fedora 39

packagekit_project/packagekit < 1.2.7

redhat/enterprise_linux 8.0

redhat/enterprise_linux 9.0

Published Jan 03, 2024

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026