CVE-2024-0217: fedoraproject fedora Use After Free

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-0217 is a low (CVSS 3.3) Use After Free vulnerability in fedoraproject fedora. EPSS estimates a 0.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 12.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 03-01-2024
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 21-11-2025
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

• CWE-416Use After FreeThe product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.