CWE-911
Improper Update of Reference Count
The product uses a reference count to manage a resource, but it does not update or incorrectly updates the reference count.
CVE-2024-45783 (GCVE-0-2024-45783)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-02-18 19:26
Modified
2025-07-29 09:41
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-911 - Improper Update of Reference Count
Summary
A flaw was found in grub2. When failing to mount an HFS+ grub, the hfsplus filesystem driver doesn't properly set an ERRNO value. This issue may lead to a NULL pointer access.
References
| ▼ | URL | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:6990 | vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT | |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-45783 | vdb-entry, x_refsource_REDHAT | |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2345863 | issue-tracking, x_refsource_REDHAT |
Impacted products
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Version: 0 ≤ 2.12 |
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No mitigation information available for this CWE.
No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.