Revert "thermal/drivers/hwmon: Cleanup coding style a bit"
Priority LOW 37Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 3 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.
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.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00138 3rd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Partial Linux (Linux): 5.15.216, 6.1.183, 6.6.152 +4Red Hat: 3 without a fix
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.15.216, 6.1.183, 6.6.152, 6.12.104, 6.18.45, 7.1.9, 7.2
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
Not affected: 2 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-74604
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-qhg8-3wmw-3xjv
- 2026-10-18 CISA SSVC decision points changed
References
Other 7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2434f4765da8ccd7ef31be88b86f1bfa2e95be11
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4c01ae6dd56d9dfd96bd1b29c28afa8fa06b366
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/999e573212d5f1debf073c68be35e55bbfad12fc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a48ee9a5bda0f8ee501f9bef159fb9f39ff519a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d34019d1413629a434a7e8d9f91c76d256196a0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b446d335ba16e93a266dd77adf1ba51abc82df4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff8da20b6f47c48d46e47f93f7a59e2d56ee9107
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Sources
- CVE-2026-74604 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-74604 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-qhg8-3wmw-3xjv · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-74604 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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