ghsa-prg5-m4w6-pjjv
Vulnerability from github
Published
2024-06-25 15:31
Modified
2024-08-19 21:35
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details

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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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-39470"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-476"
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    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2024-06-25T15:15:15Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
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  "id": "GHSA-prg5-m4w6-pjjv",
  "modified": "2024-08-19T21:35:07Z",
  "published": "2024-06-25T15:31:09Z",
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