CVE-2026-46021

NameCVE-2026-46021
DescriptionIn the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal: core: Fix thermal zone governor cleanup issues If thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips() fails after adding a thermal governor to the thermal zone being registered, the governor is not removed from it as appropriate which may lead to a memory leak. In turn, thermal_zone_device_unregister() calls thermal_set_governor() without acquiring the thermal zone lock beforehand which may race with a governor update via sysfs and may lead to a use-after-free in that case. Address these issues by adding two thermal_set_governor() calls, one to thermal_release() to remove the governor from the given thermal zone, and one to the thermal zone registration error path to cover failures preceding the thermal zone device registration.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-4664-1, DLA-4665-1, DLA-4671-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
linux (PTS)bullseye5.10.223-1vulnerable
bullseye (security)5.10.259-1fixed
bookworm6.1.170-3vulnerable
bookworm (security)6.1.176-1fixed
trixie6.12.86-1fixed
trixie (security)6.12.95-1fixed
forky7.0.13-1fixed
sid7.1.3-1fixed
linux-6.1 (PTS)bullseye (security)6.1.176-1~deb11u1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
linuxsourcebullseye5.10.259-1DLA-4664-1
linuxsourcebookworm6.1.176-1DLA-4665-1
linuxsourcetrixie6.12.86-1
linuxsource(unstable)7.0.4-1
linux-6.1sourcebullseye6.1.176-1~deb11u1DLA-4671-1

Notes

https://git.kernel.org/linus/41ff66baf81c6541f4f985dd7eac4494d03d9440 (7.1-rc1)

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