CVE-2026-45914 - Vulnerability Details

Vendors	Products
Linux	Linux Kernel

Link	Providers
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05112ba67c824ab416cd54307c0b50aba9f0047a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14a38784e09aebc21207dc32fffa05247fc3dd64
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/894d9c7aab68fd0c70c78b1d03c8fa589fb0f67d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8bde3e395a85017f12af2b0ba5c3684f5af9c006
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/914b47c9b824d3d74f31c764163edf93302100b1
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/efd68429f23fb4015b0ebc2392334059e06fad18
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f448acd86835a650f9ea83460b9ca347d3aafba5

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Revert "hwmon: (ibmpex) fix use-after-free in high/low store" This reverts commit 6946c726c3f4c36f0f049e6f97e88c510b15f65d. Jean Delvare points out that the patch does not completely fix the reported problem, that it in fact introduces a (new) race condition, and that it may actually not be needed in the first place. Various AI reviews agree. Specific and relevant AI feedback: " This reordering sets the driver data to NULL before removing the sensor attributes in the loop below. ibmpex_show_sensor() retrieves this driver data via dev_get_drvdata() but does not check if it is NULL before dereferencing it to access data->sensors[]. If a userspace process reads a sensor file (like temp1_input) while this delete function is running, could it race with the dev_set_drvdata(..., NULL) call here and crash in ibmpex_show_sensor()? Would it be safer to keep the original order where device_remove_file() is called before clearing the driver data? device_remove_file() should wait for any active sysfs callbacks to complete, which might already prevent the use-after-free this patch intends to fix. " Revert the offending patch. If it can be shown that the originally reported alleged race condition does indeed exist, it can always be re-introduced with a complete fix.
Title		Revert "hwmon: (ibmpex) fix use-after-free in high/low store"
First Time appeared		Linux Linux linux Kernel
CPEs		cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
Vendors & Products		Linux Linux linux Kernel
References		https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05112ba67c824ab416cd54307c0b50aba9f0047a https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14a38784e09aebc21207dc32fffa05247fc3dd64 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/894d9c7aab68fd0c70c78b1d03c8fa589fb0f67d https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8bde3e395a85017f12af2b0ba5c3684f5af9c006 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/914b47c9b824d3d74f31c764163edf93302100b1 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/efd68429f23fb4015b0ebc2392334059e06fad18 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f448acd86835a650f9ea83460b9ca347d3aafba5

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