CVE-2026-74552 (GCVE-0-2026-74552)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 12:27 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:21
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Title
hwmon: (lm90) Only report alarms if driver is ready
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (lm90) Only report alarms if driver is ready Userspace can read sysfs attributes before driver registration is complete, immediately after devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info() has been called. At that time, data->hwmon_dev is not yet initialized. This can trigger a NULL pointer access since lm90_update_device() and with it lm90_update_alarms_locked() will be called. This call schedules report_work and lm90_report_alarms(), which passes the still-NULL data->hwmon_dev to hwmon_notify_event() and triggers a NULL pointer dereference. Fix the problem by only scheduling the report and alert workers data->hwmon_dev is set.
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Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: f6d0775119fb905fb02eafa98d575cf8ee792d46 , < 4eed33c7db5c0c573928d28d8a2c003642c679b8 (git)
Affected: f6d0775119fb905fb02eafa98d575cf8ee792d46 , < 70d9a71aa407044d70b50d356b6decf6659c4d56 (git)
Affected: f6d0775119fb905fb02eafa98d575cf8ee792d46 , < 075fce376cf852db9293481edce07c181a9b1f46 (git)
Affected: f6d0775119fb905fb02eafa98d575cf8ee792d46 , < f0b791a006512a48b6348494cb6960598fa99a58 (git)
Affected: f6d0775119fb905fb02eafa98d575cf8ee792d46 , < aa9429edf9fc0e90d6f4da19ea4b5495a54ab117 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.151 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.103 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.44 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.8 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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