Use After Free Affecting PackageKit/PackageKit package, versions [,1.2.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (14th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PACKAGEKITPACKAGEKIT-6144248
  • published4 Jan 2024
  • disclosed3 Jan 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Jan 2024

CVE-2024-0217  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade PackageKit/PackageKit to version 1.2.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free via the Idle Function Callback. An attacker can potentially cause a program to crash or execute arbitrary code by manipulating the timing of memory allocation and deallocation to exploit the freed memory before it is reallocated.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1