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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 21, 2024· Updated Dec 18, 2025

cifs: prevent NULL deref in cifs_compose_mount_options()

CVE-2021-47307

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cifs: prevent NULL deref in cifs_compose_mount_options()

The optional @ref parameter might contain an NULL node_name, so prevent dereferencing it in cifs_compose_mount_options().

Addresses-Coverity: 1476408 ("Explicit null dereferenced")

Affected products

90

Patches

0

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