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CVE-2026-74604 Details

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.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

CNA: kernel.orgCVSS-B:8.4 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2434f4765da8ccd7ef31be88b86f1bfa2e95be11 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a48ee9a5bda0f8ee501f9bef159fb9f39ff519a kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b446d335ba16e93a266dd77adf1ba51abc82df4 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d34019d1413629a434a7e8d9f91c76d256196a0 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/999e573212d5f1debf073c68be35e55bbfad12fc kernel.org

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Weakness Enumeration

No weakness enumeration is available for this CVE.

Affected Products

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Change History

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QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2026-74604
NVD Published Date:
Aug 22, 2026
NVD Last Modified:
Aug 25, 2026
Source:
kernel.org