{"id":"CVE-2024-39470","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-39470","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T06:14:49.906Z","title":"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…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\neventfs: Fix a possible null pointer dereference in eventfs_find_events()\n\nIn function eventfs_find_events,there is a potential null pointer\nthat may be caused by calling update_events_attr which will perform\nsome operations on the members of the ei struct when ei is NULL.\n\nHence,When ei->is_freed is set,return NULL directly.","published":"2024-06-25T15:15:15.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T07:41:59.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-476"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00213,"percentile":0.11557,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.21%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ade5fbdbbb1f023bb70730ba4d74146c8bc7eb9","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a1b2d138189375ed1dcd7d0851118230221bd1d","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4e9a968738bf66d3bb852dd5588d4c7afd6d7f4","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ade5fbdbbb1f023bb70730ba4d74146c8bc7eb9","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a1b2d138189375ed1dcd7d0851118230221bd1d","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4e9a968738bf66d3bb852dd5588d4c7afd6d7f4","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-39470","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}