5.5

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 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.
Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.1.85 < 6.1.103
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.6.26 < 6.6.44
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.8.5 < 6.10.3
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.02% 0.027
CVSS Metriken
Source Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector string
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.