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.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2026-1692 advisory.

    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. (CVE-2024-0217)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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. (CVE-2024-0217)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The version of PackageKit installed on the remote host is prior to 1.1.5-2. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-2811 advisory.

    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. (CVE-2024-0217)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-SUSE-RU-2024:1202-1 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2024-0217)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1046-1 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2024-0217)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLED_SAP12 / SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0966-1 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2024-0217)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
313527	Amazon Linux 2023 : PackageKit, PackageKit-command-not-found, PackageKit-cron (ALAS2023-2026-1692)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	low
260239	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-0217	Nessus	Misc.	low
233683	Amazon Linux 2 : PackageKit (ALAS-2025-2811)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	low
193247	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 : Recommended update for libzypp, zypper, PackageKit (SUSE-SU-SUSE-RU-2024:1202-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	low
192691	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : PackageKit (SUSE-SU-2024:1046-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	low
192495	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : PackageKit (SUSE-SU-2024:0966-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	low

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