Red Hat Security Advisory: orc security update
Affects Red Hat orcSource GCVE Database
Not known to be exploited.
Data as of 5 Nov 2026, 17:05 UTC
Rated by Threat Radar · No CVSS score from NVD or the CNA
Exploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 3 Sep 2024
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponized: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors
A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 5 Nov 2026.
What to do
AI-suggested
Red Hat has released updated orc packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 variants that fix this vulnerability. Users should apply the security update as described in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2024:6159 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 to remediate the issue.
Description
A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2024-40897) was identified in the Orc library, which is used for compiling and executing simple programs operating on arrays of data. This vulnerability affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 variants and has been rated as having moderate security impact by Red Hat. An update addressing this issue is available for affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 packages.