CVE-2024-45769 Pcp: pmcd heap corruption through metric pmstore operations
An attacker can cause heap corruption in Performance Co-Pilot via crafted metric operations, leading to crashes or potential code execution on Red Hat systems.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-45769?
CVE-2024-45769 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, published on 19 Sep 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A vulnerability was found in Performance Co-Pilot (PCP). This flaw allows an attacker to send specially crafted data to the system, which could cause the program to misbehave or crash.
Weakness: CWE-787
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-45769?
How do I fix CVE-2024-45769?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2024-45769 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-45769 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as AZL-49651, AZL-49656, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-45769, GHSA-prr3-v2fg-ggg7, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-45769.