Threats tagged 'ghsa-v43p-8x6p-65w4'

A race condition vulnerability in the Linux kernel's SMB client implementation (cifsd) has been resolved. The issue involves the cifsd demultiplex thread accessing the tcp_ses structure before it is fully initialized by the parent thread, potentially causing the thread to sleep indefinitely waiting for a SIGKILL signal. The fix involves reordering thread creation to occur after tcp_ses is fully populated, using a split kthread_create/wake_up_process approach.