CVE-2024-39470

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-39470
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-39470.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-39470
Downstream
Related
Published
2024-06-25T15:15:15Z
Modified
2024-11-21T09:27:44Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

eventfs: Fix a possible null pointer dereference in eventfsfindevents()

In function eventfsfindevents,there is a potential null pointer that may be caused by calling updateeventsattr 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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:13 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.9.7-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}