CVE-2024-0217 is a low-severity use-after-free vulnerability affecting PackageKitd in Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This flaw can lead to memory access on previously freed regions due to cleanup timing issues during transactions. While the potential impact is limited to a denial of service (availability), the attack complexity is low, requiring local access and low privileges. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.2.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:packagekit_project:packagekit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
39CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:39:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
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