Security Advisory

CVE-2024-39470

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-06-25 14:28:56
Last updated 2026-05-23 15:50:05
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

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.