cve/2024/CVE-2024-42078.md

### [CVE-2024-42078](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-42078)
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### Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:nfsd: initialise nfsd_info.mutex early.nfsd_info.mutex can be dereferenced by svc_pool_stats_start()immediately after the new netns is created.  Currently this cantrigger an oops.Move the initialisation earlier before it can possibly be dereferenced.

### POC

#### Reference
No PoCs from references.

#### Github
- https://github.com/fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds