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CVE-2024-44852

Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference

Published: Dec 06, 2024 | Modified: Dec 17, 2024
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-44852
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/763.html

Open Robotics Robotic Operating System 2 ROS2 navigation2 v.humble was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the component theta_star::ThetaStar::isUnsafeToPlan().

Weakness

The product attempts to return a memory resource to the system, but it calls the wrong release function or calls the appropriate release function incorrectly.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Robot_operating_system Openrobotics 2-humble (including) 2-humble (including)
Robot_operating_system Openrobotics 2-iron (including) 2-iron (including)

Extended Description

This weakness can take several forms, such as:

Potential Mitigations

  • Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
  • For example, glibc in Linux provides protection against free of invalid pointers.

References

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