In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: Fix potential UAF in...

zetlyn/cve-ghsa vulnerability ghsa GHSA-xqgw-9m49-8xxh cve CVE-2026-98000 known 2026-09-25

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xqgw-9m49-8xxh

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2026-09-26 15:00 UTC
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: Fix potential UAF in... In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: Fix potential UAF in pec_store Sashiko reports: In pec_store(), a guard(mutex)(&hwdev->lock) is taken. If the chip write operation returns an error other than -EOPNOTSUPP, the code jumps to the put label, which calls put_device(hdev). If this drops the final reference, the device is freed. When the function then returns, the guard cleanup function runs and attempts to unlock the freed mutex. Use scoped_guard() instead of guard() to avoid the problem.