CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-42307

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-08-17 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-08-17
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

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 configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 6.1.85 < 6.1.103) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.6.26 < 6.6.44) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.8.5 < 6.10.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References