Threats tagged 'ghsa-3h49-76hw-pv6f'

CVE-2024-42307 is a medium severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel's CIFS client code. It involves a potential null pointer dereference in the destroy_workqueue function during error handling in init_cifs. The issue was caused by incorrect ordering of resource freeing in error paths, which could lead to a null pointer use. This flaw was identified by a static analysis warning and has been resolved.