CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-64213
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-07-24
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hwmon: (lm90) Add lock protection to lm90_alert
Sashiko reports:
lm90_alert() executes in the smbus alert context and calls
lm90_update_confreg() to disable the hardware alert line, without
acquiring hwmon_lock.
Concurrently, sysfs write operations (such as lm90_write_convrate) hold
the hwmon_lock, temporarily modify data->config, and then restore it.
If an alert interrupt occurs concurrently with a sysfs write, the sysfs
path will overwrite the alert handler's modifications to data->config
and the hardware register.
This unintentionally re-enables the hardware alert line while the alarm is
still active, causing an interrupt storm.
Add the missing lock to lm90_alert() to solve the problem.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.3 < 6.18.34)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.11)
• linux linux kernel 7.1
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02b88fa993582b4fe228b4143b330b0bb9f28353 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/165ef777ec6f634a5e4b8d9b0dadca8ef91fa90e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/873e919e3101063a7a75989510ccfc125a4391cf Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0b66aae8a94c3663d47e4000b0e81b89ce32186 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bed1fc32e0eb653806fa98afcf55f9a311fc4ce2 Patch