CVE-2024-9979

A flaw was found in PyO3. This vulnerability causes a use-after-free issue, potentially leading to memory corruption or crashes via unsound borrowing from weak Python references.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.3 Medium

Status

Deferred - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2024-10-15

Last modified

2025-11-20

Weaknesses

CWE-416

Affected products

• Ansible Automation Platform (Redhat)
• Enterprise Linux (Redhat)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-9979
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2318646
• https://crates.io/crates/pyo3
• https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/pull/4590
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0378.html