CVE-2024-42307

CVE-2024-42307: vulnerability in Linux

cifs: fix potential null pointer use in destroy_workqueue in init_cifs error path

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3Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 90% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: fix potential null pointer use in destroy_workqueue in init_cifs error path Dan Carpenter reported a Smack static checker warning: fs/smb/client/cifsfs.c:1981 init_cifs() error: we previously assumed 'serverclose_wq' could be null (see line 1895) The patch which introduced the serverclose workqueue used the wrong oredering in error paths in init_cifs() for freeing it on errors.
Affected products
Linux · Linux
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/160235efb4f9b55212dedff5de0094c606c4b303https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/193cc89ea0ca1da311877d2b4bb5e9f03bcc82a2https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3739d711246d8fbc95ff73dbdace9741cdce4777https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6018971710fdc7739f8655c1540832b4bb903671https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html