CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-8947

Use After Free

Published: Sep 17, 2024 | Modified: Sep 24, 2024
CVSS 3.x
8.1
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

A vulnerability was found in MicroPython 1.22.2. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file py/objarray.c. The manipulation leads to use after free. The attack can be launched remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation appears to be difficult. Upgrading to version 1.23.0 is able to address this issue. The identifier of the patch is 4bed614e707c0644c06e117f848fa12605c711cd. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. In micropython objarray component, when a bytes object is resized and copied into itself, it may reference memory that has already been freed.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Micropython Micropython 1.22.2 (including) 1.22.2 (including)
Micropython Ubuntu esm-apps/focal *
Micropython Ubuntu esm-apps/jammy *
Micropython Ubuntu esm-apps/noble *
Micropython Ubuntu focal *
Micropython Ubuntu jammy *
Micropython Ubuntu noble *
Micropython Ubuntu oracular *

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