CVE-2024-39440

CVSS 3.1 Score 4.4 of 10 (medium)

Details

Published Oct 9, 2024
Updated: Oct 17, 2024
CWE ID 476

Summary

CVE-2024-39440 is a newly disclosed vulnerability affecting DRM (Digital Rights Management) services. The issue arises from a null pointer dereference, which triggers a system crash. Malicious actors could exploit this vulnerability to inflict local Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. Notably, to successfully execute these attacks, the attacker requires System execution privileges.

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