cifs: fix potential race when tree connecting ipc
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 94% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cifs: fix potential race when tree connecting ipc
Protect access of TCP_Server_Info::hostname when building the ipc tree
name as it might get freed in cifsd thread and thus causing an
use-after-free bug in __tree_connect_dfs_target(). Also, while at it,
update status of IPC tcon on success and then avoid any extra tree
connects.
Affected products
Linux · Linux