CVE-2024-35998: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb3: fix lock ordering potential deadlock in cifs_sync_mid_result Coverity spotted that the cifs_sync_mid_result function could deadlock "Thread deadlock (ORDER_REVERSAL) lock_order: Calling spin_lock acquires lock TCP_Server_Info.srv_lock while holding lock TCP_Server_Info.mid_lock" Addresses-Coverity: 1590401 ("Thread deadlock (ORDER_REVERSAL)")

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 6.1.90 (fixed in 6.1.90); from 6.2, before 6.6.30 (fixed in 6.6.30); from 6.7, before 6.8.9 (fixed in 6.8.9); version 6.9 only

Published 2024-05-20. Last modified 2026-08-04.