Bug 2521446 (CVE-2026-74604) - CVE-2026-74604 kernel: Revert "thermal/drivers/hwmon: Cleanup coding style a bit"
Summary: CVE-2026-74604 kernel: Revert "thermal/drivers/hwmon: Cleanup coding style a ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-74604
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2026-08-22 15:46 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-24 13:23 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-22 15:46:00 UTC 
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.
Comment 1 Keith Grant 2026-08-24 13:20:39 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026082216-CVE-2026-74604-c7bc@gregkh/T
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