In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Revert "thermal/drivers/hwmon: Cleanup coding style a bit" Revert c…
CVE-2026-74604 · published 22 Aug 2026
How serious is it
- Severity: high, CVSS score 8.4 out of 10.
- No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
- Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- No public exploit in Exploit-DB.
Is your app affected by CVE-2026-74604?
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Who is affected
- Linux Linux: 5.11
How to check
- Find out whether you run the affected product and which version, then compare it with the versions above.
How to fix
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- Apply the vendor's update or mitigation from the references below. If there is none yet, limit exposure of the affected service until there is.
- If a vulnerable version was live, check your logs and rotate the secrets that server could read.
The advisory
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.
Check your whole app
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References
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/2434f4765da8ccd7ef31be88b86f1bfa2e95be11
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a48ee9a5bda0f8ee501f9bef159fb9f39ff519a
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b446d335ba16e93a266dd77adf1ba51abc82df4
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d34019d1413629a434a7e8d9f91c76d256196a0
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/999e573212d5f1debf073c68be35e55bbfad12fc
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4c01ae6dd56d9dfd96bd1b29c28afa8fa06b366
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff8da20b6f47c48d46e47f93f7a59e2d56ee9107
Merged from NVD. Last updated 24 Oct 2026. All vulnerabilities · RSS · JSON