CVE-2024-24246 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2024-24246?

CVE-2024-24246 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 29 Feb 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Heap Buffer Overflow vulnerability in qpdf 11.9.0 allows attackers to crash the application via the std::__shared_count() function at /bits/shared_ptr_base.h.

Weakness: CWE-787, CWE-122

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-24246?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Qpdf Project Qpdf.

How do I fix CVE-2024-24246?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2024-24246 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-24246 exists.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2024-24246, GHSA-6733-f273-8q48, MGASA-2024-0076, USN-6713-1.