cve/2024/CVE-2024-42307.md

CVE-2024-42307

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:cifs: fix potential null pointer use in destroy_workqueue in init_cifs error pathDan 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 wrongoredering in error paths in init_cifs() for freeing it on errors.

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Github

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