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Tracker / CVE-2024-42307

CVE-2024-42307

Medium 5.5

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 and versions

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

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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