# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-47705"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-10-21T11:53:40.071Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:51:59.574Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-47705"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-47705.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-47705"
title: "block: fix potential invalid pointer dereference in blk_add_partition"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nblock: fix potential invalid pointer dereference in blk_add_partition\n\nThe blk_add_partition() function initially used a single if-condition\n(IS_ERR(part)) to check for errors when adding a partition. This was\nmodified to handle the specific case of -ENXIO separately, allowing the\nfunction to proceed without logging the error in this case. However,\nthis change unintentionally left a path where md_autodetect_dev()\ncould be called without confirming that part is a valid pointer.\n\nThis commit separates the error handling logic by splitting the\ninitial if-condition, improving code readability and handling specific\nerror scenarios explicitly. The function now distinguishes the general\nerror case from -ENXIO without altering the existing behavior of\nmd_autodetect_dev() calls."
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