vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2024-42078: kernel: nfsd: initialise nfsd_info.mutex early. (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jul 29, 2024
Added
Dec 5, 2024
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

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.

Solutions

no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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