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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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.