CVE-2024-46742
kernel: smb/server: fix potential null-ptr-deref of lease_ctx_info in smb2_open()
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · September 18, 2024
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb/server: fix potential null-ptr-deref of lease_ctx_info in smb2_open()
null-ptr-deref will occur when (req_op_level == SMB2_OPLOCK_LEVEL_LEASE) and parse_lease_state() return NULL.
Fix this by check if 'lease_ctx_info' is NULL.
Additionally, remove the redundant parentheses in parse_durable_handle_context().
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference