Description
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.
References7
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/2434f4765da8ccd7ef31be88b86f1bfa2e95be11
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a48ee9a5bda0f8ee501f9bef159fb9f39ff519a
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b446d335ba16e93a266dd77adf1ba51abc82df4
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d34019d1413629a434a7e8d9f91c76d256196a0
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/999e573212d5f1debf073c68be35e55bbfad12fc
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4c01ae6dd56d9dfd96bd1b29c28afa8fa06b366
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff8da20b6f47c48d46e47f93f7a59e2d56ee9107
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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8.4
HIGH
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 3 · as of 9 November 2026
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