Source: packagekit Version: 1.2.6-5 Severity: important Tags: security upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: car...@debian.org, Debian Security Team <t...@security.debian.org>
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for packagekit. CVE-2024-0217[0]: | 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. The only reference know so far is [1] which say as well that the issue should be fixed in 1.2.7 upstream. Do you happen to know more on it? If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-0217 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-0217 [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2256624 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore
