CVE-2026-74604 (GCVE-0-2026-74604)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-22 15:31 – Updated: 2026-10-16 19:06
VLAI
Title
Revert "thermal/drivers/hwmon: Cleanup coding style a bit"
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Revert "thermal/drivers/hwmon: Cleanup coding style a bit" Revert commit 030a48b0f6ce ("thermal/drivers/hwmon: Cleanup coding style a bit") that introduced a use-after-free into the error path of thermal_add_hwmon_sysfs() by removing a valid check from it.
Severity
8.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-10-16 19:02 UTC
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7033 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 030a48b0f6ce393d78b8d33debb1e2043b8cc156 , < 2434f4765da8ccd7ef31be88b86f1bfa2e95be11 (git)
Affected: 030a48b0f6ce393d78b8d33debb1e2043b8cc156 , < b4c01ae6dd56d9dfd96bd1b29c28afa8fa06b366 (git)
Affected: 030a48b0f6ce393d78b8d33debb1e2043b8cc156 , < 999e573212d5f1debf073c68be35e55bbfad12fc (git)
Affected: 030a48b0f6ce393d78b8d33debb1e2043b8cc156 , < 6a48ee9a5bda0f8ee501f9bef159fb9f39ff519a (git)
Affected: 030a48b0f6ce393d78b8d33debb1e2043b8cc156 , < 8d34019d1413629a434a7e8d9f91c76d256196a0 (git)
Affected: 030a48b0f6ce393d78b8d33debb1e2043b8cc156 , < 6b446d335ba16e93a266dd77adf1ba51abc82df4 (git)
Affected: 030a48b0f6ce393d78b8d33debb1e2043b8cc156 , < ff8da20b6f47c48d46e47f93f7a59e2d56ee9107 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.11 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.216 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.183 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.152 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.104 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.45 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.9 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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