🛡️ CVE-2024-42078
🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-665 NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfsd: initialise nfsd_info.mutex early. nfsd_info.mutex can be dereferenced by svc_pool_stats_start() immediately after the new netns is created. Currently this can trigger an oops. Move the initialisation earlier before it can possibly be dereferenced.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-665
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-07-29
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2024-11-21

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
linux-kernel 6.9 6.9.8

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