CVE-2024-44992

smb/client: avoid possible NULL dereference in cifs_free_subrequest()

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Sep 4, 2024
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Aug 21, 2024

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smb/client: avoid possible NULL dereference in cifs_free_subrequest()

Clang static checker (scan-build) warning: cifsglob.h:line 890, column 3 Access to field 'ops' results in a dereference of a null pointer.

Commit 519be989717c ("cifs: Add a tracepoint to track credits involved in R/W requests") adds a check for 'rdata->server', and let clang throw this warning about NULL dereference.

When 'rdata->credits.value != 0 && rdata->server == NULL' happens, add_credits_and_wake_if() will call rdata->server->ops->add_credits(). This will cause NULL dereference problem. Add a check for 'rdata->server' to avoid NULL dereference.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 69c3c023af25edb5433a2db824d3e7cc328f0183 to before fead60a6d5f84b472b928502a42c419253afe6c1Affected
  • 69c3c023af25edb5433a2db824d3e7cc328f0183 to before 74c2ab6d653b4c2354df65a7f7f2df1925a40a51Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.10Affected
  • before 6.10Not affected
  • 6.10.7 through 6.10.*Not affected
  • 6.11 and laterNot affected

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