CVE-2024-9979

Oct. 16, 2024, 4:38 p.m.

5.3
Medium

Description

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.

Product(s) Impacted

Product Versions
PyO3
  • []

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-416
Use After Free
Referencing memory after it has been freed can cause a program to crash, use unexpected values, or execute code.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-9979
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2318646
https://crates.io/crates/pyo3
https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/pull/4590
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0378.html

Tags

secalert@redhat.com
CWE-416
2024-10-15
CVE-2024-9979

CVSS Score

5.3 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

  • Attack Vector: LOCAL
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: LOW
  • Scope: UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: LOW
  • Integrity Impact: LOW
  • Availability Impact: LOW

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

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Timeline

Published: Oct. 15, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
Last Modified: Oct. 16, 2024, 4:38 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

secalert@redhat.com

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