CVE-2026-64213

CVE-2026-64213

Medium · published July 24, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
1.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

hwmon: (lm90) Add lock protection to lm90_alert

Sashiko reports:

lm90_alert() executes in the smbus alert context and calls

lm90_update_confreg() to disable the hardware alert line, without

acquiring hwmon_lock.

Concurrently, sysfs write operations (such as lm90_write_convrate) hold

the hwmon_lock, temporarily modify data->config, and then restore it.

If an alert interrupt occurs concurrently with a sysfs write, the sysfs

path will overwrite the alert handler's modifications to data->config

and the hardware register.

This unintentionally re-enables the hardware alert line while the alarm is

still active, causing an interrupt storm.

Add the missing lock to lm90_alert() to solve the problem.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00122 · 1.8th percentile
Published
2026-07-24T20:16Z
Affected products (5)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.3, < 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
  • 24 JUL 15:23Z
    hwmon: (lm90) Add lock protection to lm90_alert
    cvelistv5