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Unrated severityOSV Advisory· Published Jan 3, 2024· Updated Nov 21, 2025

Packagekitd: use-after-free in idle function callback

CVE-2024-0217

Description

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.

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