CVE-2026-74604

CVE-2026-74604

High · published August 22, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.4
EPSS
0%
Percentile
2.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.4 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00138 · 2.9th percentile
Published
2026-08-22T20:16Z
References (7)
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2434f4765da8ccd7ef31be88b86f1bfa2e95be11 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a48ee9a5bda0f8ee501f9bef159fb9f39ff519a · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b446d335ba16e93a266dd77adf1ba51abc82df4 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d34019d1413629a434a7e8d9f91c76d256196a0 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/999e573212d5f1debf073c68be35e55bbfad12fc · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4c01ae6dd56d9dfd96bd1b29c28afa8fa06b366 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff8da20b6f47c48d46e47f93f7a59e2d56ee9107 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 AUG 15:31Z
    Revert "thermal/drivers/hwmon: Cleanup coding style a bit"
    cvelistv5