CVE-2024-42078

kernel: nfsd: initialise nfsd_info.mutex early.

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · July 29, 2024

Updated · October 29, 2026

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-457 · Use of Uninitialized Variable