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.

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Published Date :

2024-08-17T09:09:12.613Z

Last Modified :

2025-11-03T22:04:16.392Z

Source :

Linux
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2024-42307 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Linux
  • Linux Kernel
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/160235efb4f9b55212dedff5de0094c606c4b303 cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/193cc89ea0ca1da311877d2b4bb5e9f03bcc82a2 cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3739d711246d8fbc95ff73dbdace9741cdce4777 cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6018971710fdc7739f8655c1540832b4bb903671 cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html cve-icon
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024081750-CVE-2024-42307-7c2c@gregkh/T cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42307 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-42307 cve-icon
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