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CVE-2024-40897VulnerabilityPublished Updated

Red Hat Security Advisory: orc security update

Affects Red Hat orcSource GCVE Database

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Not known to be exploited.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026, 17:05 UTC

Severity
Medium

Rated by Threat Radar · No CVSS score from NVD or the CNA

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 13 Aug 2024

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq 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 and its extended life cycle variants on multiple architectures. Users should apply these official updates as detailed in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2024:5306 to remediate the vulnerability. No additional mitigation steps are indicated beyond applying the vendor-provided patches.

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2024-40897) has been identified in the Orc library, which is used for compiling and executing simple programs operating on data arrays. This vulnerability affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 across multiple architectures. Red Hat has issued a security update to address this issue, rated with moderate severity.

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