Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python3.11-cryptography  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-PYTHON311CRYPTOGRAPHY-8222199
  • published16 Oct 2024
  • disclosed12 Oct 2024

Introduced: 12 Oct 2024

CVE-2024-9979  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python3.11-cryptography package and not the python3.11-cryptography package as distributed by RHEL.

A flaw was found in PyO3. This vulnerability causes a use-after-free issue, potentially leading to memory corruption or crashes via unsound borrowing from weak Python references.