cve/2024/CVE-2024-42307.md

### [CVE-2024-42307](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-42307)
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### 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.

### POC

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