CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-64038

Low risk· EPSS 6%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.17%

6th percentile - higher than 6% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel's lm90 driver, a race condition exists between delayed work cancellation (alert_work, report_work) and hwmon device release. Under certain conditions, this can lead to a use-after-free vulnerability.

Risk Assessment

The risk includes potential memory corruption or system crash due to use-after-free in the hardware monitoring driver, which could be exploited for privilege escalation or system destabilization.

Recommendation

Immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that cancels workers before releasing the hwmon device and adds a 'shutdown' flag to prevent re-arming.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

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