medium5.5
CVE-2024-42307
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 Carpe…
Impact
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
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux Kernel | from 6.1.85 before 6.1.103 from 6.6.26 before 6.6.44 from 6.8.5 before 6.10.3 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/160235efb4f9b55212dedff5de0094c606c4b303
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/193cc89ea0ca1da311877d2b4bb5e9f03bcc82a2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3739d711246d8fbc95ff73dbdace9741cdce4777
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6018971710fdc7739f8655c1540832b4bb903671
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html