Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jun 25, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2024-39470
CVE-2024-39470
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.
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