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 13 Aug 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 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.