CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-39470
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-06-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
eventfs: Fix a possible null pointer dereference in eventfs_find_events()
In function eventfs_find_events,there is a potential null pointer
that may be caused by calling update_events_attr which will perform
some operations on the members of the ei struct when ei is NULL.
Hence,When ei->is_freed is set,return NULL directly.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.6.18 < 6.6.34)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.8 < 6.9.5)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ade5fbdbbb1f023bb70730ba4d74146c8bc7eb9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a1b2d138189375ed1dcd7d0851118230221bd1d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4e9a968738bf66d3bb852dd5588d4c7afd6d7f4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ade5fbdbbb1f023bb70730ba4d74146c8bc7eb9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a1b2d138189375ed1dcd7d0851118230221bd1d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4e9a968738bf66d3bb852dd5588d4c7afd6d7f4 Patch