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high 7.5

CVE-2024-24259 json

freeglut through 3.4.0 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the menuEntry variable in the glutAddMenuEntry function.

published 2024-02-05 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-21683

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 66%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

freeglut through 3.4.0 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the menuEntry variable in the glutAddMenuEntry function.

Patch / fix

  • freeglut Ubuntu 25.10 3.4.0-5ubuntu0.1
  • mupdf Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 1.12.0+ds1-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
  • mupdf Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 1.16.1+ds1-1ubuntu1+esm2
  • mupdf Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS 1.19.0+ds1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • mupdf Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS 1.23.10+ds1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • freeglut Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 2.8.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • freeglut Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 2.8.1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • freeglut Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 2.8.1-3ubuntu0.18.04.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-24259

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • freeglut RHEL 8 3.0.0-9.el8
  • freeglut RHEL 9 3.2.1-10.el9

red hat advisories RHSA-2024:3120RHSA-2024:2366

  • freeglut AlmaLinux 8 3.0.0-9.el8
  • freeglut AlmaLinux 9 3.2.1-10.el9

almalinux advisories ALSA-2024:3120ALSA-2024:2366

  • freeglut Rocky Linux 8 3.0.0-9.el8
  • freeglut Rocky Linux 9 3.2.1-10.el9

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2024:3120RLSA-2024:2366

  • freeglut Azure Linux 3.0 3.4.0-1

azure linux advisories AZL-39694

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-24259 updated cvss 5.3

freeglut: memory leak via glutAddMenuEntry() function

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 freeglut
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) freeglut 3.0.0-9.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:3120
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) freeglut 3.2.1-10.el9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:2366

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

1.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/yinluming13579/mupdf_defects/blob/main/mupdf_detect_2.md referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

Sources

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