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CVE-2026-46021

thermal: core: Fix thermal zone governor cleanup issues PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal: core: Fix thermal zone governor cleanup issues If thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips() fails after adding a thermal governor to the thermal zone being registered, the governor is not removed from it as appropriate which may lead to a memory leak. In turn, thermal_zone_device_unregister() calls thermal_set_governor() without acquiring the thermal zone lock beforehand which may race with a governor update via sysfs and may lead to a use-after-free in that case. Address these issues by adding two thermal_set_governor() calls, one to thermal_release() to remove the governor from the given thermal zone, and one to the thermal zone registration error path to cover failures preceding the thermal zone device registration.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected e33df1d2f3a0141cd79e770f31999ba0dd7ebfa8 before a172fa18bc370b776ac1510abb0dcb50a7a35fac; affected e33df1d2f3a0141cd79e770f31999ba0dd7ebfa8 before 8e563d8db50f303171aceb79eec0807e7ba06951; affected e33df1d2f3a0141cd79e770f31999ba0dd7ebfa8 before d4eb861adde5ce22e459fbd29366f47bb2167977; affected e33df1d2f3a0141cd79e770f31999ba0dd7ebfa8 before 37a430a2d4e66ec8238da6c7f7e48809bf265e13; affected e33df1d2f3a0141cd79e770f31999ba0dd7ebfa8 before f412e541d25a3dfaf3d53e012ade6ff03cae8a45; affected e33df1d2f3a0141cd79e770f31999ba0dd7ebfa8 before 75f8f3c3e09122270986de9d7aa347d701676761; affected e33df1d2f3a0141cd79e770f31999ba0dd7ebfa8 before 64d4ebf91d082034bbc5ae3ba2d7fd800bc02d06; affected e33df1d2f3a0141cd79e770f31999ba0dd7ebfa8 before 41ff66baf81c6541f4f985dd7eac4494d03d9440
Linux / Linuxaffected 4.2; unaffected 0 before 4.2; unaffected 5.10.259 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.210 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.176 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.140 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.86 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.27 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.0.4 through 7.0.*; unaffected 7.1 through *

CWE

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References

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