CVE-2024-42307: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.1.85, before 6.1.103 (fixed in 6.1.103); from 6.6.26, before 6.6.44 (fixed in 6.6.44); from 6.8.5, before 6.10.3 (fixed in 6.10.3)

Published 2024-08-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.