# CVE-2024-49999: afs: Fix the setting of the server responding flag

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-10-21 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 6.8

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afs: Fix the setting of the server responding flag In afs_wait_for_operation(), we set transcribe the call responded flag to the server record that we used after doing the fileserver iteration loop - but it's possible to exit the loop having had a response from the server that we've discarded (e.g. it returned an abort or we started receiving data, but the call didn't complete). This means that op->server might be NULL, but we don't check that before attempting to set the server flag.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d51ab44123f35dd1d646d99a15ebef10f55e263
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97c953572d98080c5f1486155350bb688041747a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff98751bae40faed1ba9c6a7287e84430f7dec64

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