CVE-2026-64038CWE-362

CVE-2026-64038

Medium · published July 19, 2026

CVSS v3.1
4.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
0.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

hwmon: (lm90) Stop work before releasing hwmon device

Sashiko reports:

In lm90_probe(), the devm action to cancel the alert_work and report_work

(lm90_restore_conf) is registered in lm90_init_client() before

devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info() is called.

Because devm executes cleanup actions in reverse order during module

unbind or probe failure, the hwmon device is unregistered and freed first.

If lm90_alert_work() or lm90_report_alarms() runs in the window between

the hwmon device being freed and the delayed works being cancelled,

lm90_update_alarms() will dereference the freed data->hwmon_dev here.

Fix the problem by canceling the workers separately after registering

the hwmon device and before registering the interrupt handler. This ensures

that the workers are canceled after interrupts are disabled and before

the hwmon device is released. Add "shutdown" flag to indicate that device

shutdown is in progress to prevent workers from being re-armed.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.7 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00089 · 0.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-362 · Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
Published
2026-07-19T20:17Z
Affected products (5)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.0, < 6.18.346.18.34
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.19, < 7.0.117.0.11
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
References (5)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 JUL 15:39Z
    hwmon: (lm90) Stop work before releasing hwmon device
    cvelistv5