CVE-2024-42307
Published: Aug 17, 2024
Modified: May 23, 2026
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 8c99dfb49bdc17edffc7ff3d46b400c8c291686c - < 6018971710fdc7739f8655c1540832b4bb903671affected 6f17163b9339fac92023a1d9bef22128db3b9a4b - < 160235efb4f9b55212dedff5de0094c606c4b303affected 173217bd73365867378b5e75a86f0049e1069ee8 - < 3739d711246d8fbc95ff73dbdace9741cdce4777affected 173217bd73365867378b5e75a86f0049e1069ee8 - < 193cc89ea0ca1da311877d2b4bb5e9f03bcc82a2affected 40a5d14c9d3b585d55d3209fb5efe202dcaac926+3 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 6.9unaffected 0 - < 6.9unaffected 6.1.103 - <= 6.1.*unaffected 6.6.44 - <= 6.6.*unaffected 6.10.3 - <= 6.10.*+1 more versions |
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