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CVE-2026-74552

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CVSS
5.5 Medium
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.17%
Risk score
3.7
Published
2026-08-15
Status
Published

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (lm90) Only report alarms if driver is ready Userspace can read sysfs attributes before driver registration is complete, immediately after devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info() has been called. At that time, data->hwmon_dev is not yet initialized. This can trigger a NULL pointer access since lm90_update_device() and with it lm90_update_alarms_locked() will be called. This call schedules report_work and lm90_report_alarms(), which passes the still-NULL data->hwmon_dev to hwmon_notify_event() and triggers a NULL pointer dereference. Fix the problem by only scheduling the report and alert workers data->hwmon_dev is set. A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's hwmon (lm90) driver. A local user can trigger a null pointer dereference by reading sysfs attributes before the driver's registration is complete. This can lead to a system crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Weaknesses

CWE-824

Coverage 1

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