Description

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

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-24258

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 7.5

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor: n/a

Product: n/a

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.2% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 43.0% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-05 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-24258
https://github.com/yinluming13579/mupdf_defects/blob/main/mupdf_detect_1.md
https://github.com/freeglut/freeglut/pull/155
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T43DAHPIWMGN54E4I6ABLHNYHZSTX7H5/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6IBAWX3HMMZVAWJZ3U6VOAYYOYJCN3IS/

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