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CVE-2024-39470

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2024-06-25 Modified: 2026-06-17

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 Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-476

References