CVE-2024-42307

Name	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 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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	bullseye (security), bullseye	5.10.223-1	fixed
	bookworm	6.1.106-3	fixed
	bookworm (security)	6.1.99-1	vulnerable
	sid, trixie	6.10.9-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version
linux	source	bullseye	(not affected)
linux	source	bookworm	6.1.106-1
linux	source	(unstable)	6.10.3-1

[bullseye] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://git.kernel.org/linus/193cc89ea0ca1da311877d2b4bb5e9f03bcc82a2 (6.11-rc1)