CVE-2024-42307 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2024-42307

cifs: fix potential null pointer use in destroy_workqueue in init_cifs error path

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
8c99dfb49bdc17edffc7ff3d46b400c8c291686c, 6f17163b9339fac92023a1d9bef22128db3b9a4b, 173217bd73365867378b5e75a86f0049e1069ee8, 40a5d14c9d3b585d55d3209fb5efe202dcaac926, 6.1.85, 6.6.26, 6.8.5, 6.9, 0, 6.1.103, 6.6.44, 6.10.3, 6.11

Timeline

Official Publish: August 17th, 2024
Last Modified: May 23rd, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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