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High 8.4Published Aug 22, 2026

CVE-2026-74604Revert "thermal/drivers/hwmon: Cleanup coding style a bit"

Updated under an hour ago ()

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No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

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.

CVSS
8.4 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
Not given
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
Linux
NVD analysis
Received
Record last updated
Oct 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
Linux Linux
linux:linux (from the name)
from 030a48b0f6ce393d78b8d33debb1e2043b8cc156 before 2434f4765da8ccd7ef31be88b86f1bfa2e95be11; from 030a48b0f6ce393d78b8d33debb1e2043b8cc156 before b4c01ae6dd56d9dfd96bd1b29c28afa8fa06b366; from 030a48b0f6ce393d78b8d33debb1e2043b8cc156 before 999e573212d5f1debf073c68be35e55bbfad12fc; 030a48b0f6ce393d78b8d33debb1e2043b8cc156 builds before 6a48ee9a5bda0f8ee501f9bef159fb9f39ff519a; 030a48b0f6ce393d78b8d33debb1e2043b8cc156 builds before 8d34019d1413629a434a7e8d9f91c76d256196a0; 030a48b0f6ce393d78b8d33debb1e2043b8cc156 builds before 6b446d335ba16e93a266dd77adf1ba51abc82df4; from 030a48b0f6ce393d78b8d33debb1e2043b8cc156 before ff8da20b6f47c48d46e47f93f7a59e2d56ee9107
CNA record

References

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