Bug 2294311 (CVE-2024-39470)

Summary: CVE-2024-39470 kernel: eventfs: Fix a possible null pointer dereference in eventfs_find_events()
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2024-06-25 20:28:03 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

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

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-39470 to this issue.

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024062500-CVE-2024-39470-5b25@gregkh/T
Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2024-06-25 20:28:21 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2294312]