CVE-2026-46021 (GCVE-0-2026-46021)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-27 12:56 – Updated: 2026-05-27 12:56
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Title
thermal: core: Fix thermal zone governor cleanup issues
Summary
In 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.
Severity
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Assigner
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: e33df1d2f3a0141cd79e770f31999ba0dd7ebfa8 , < 37a430a2d4e66ec8238da6c7f7e48809bf265e13 (git)
Affected: e33df1d2f3a0141cd79e770f31999ba0dd7ebfa8 , < f412e541d25a3dfaf3d53e012ade6ff03cae8a45 (git)
Affected: e33df1d2f3a0141cd79e770f31999ba0dd7ebfa8 , < 75f8f3c3e09122270986de9d7aa347d701676761 (git)
Affected: e33df1d2f3a0141cd79e770f31999ba0dd7ebfa8 , < 64d4ebf91d082034bbc5ae3ba2d7fd800bc02d06 (git)
Affected: e33df1d2f3a0141cd79e770f31999ba0dd7ebfa8 , < 41ff66baf81c6541f4f985dd7eac4494d03d9440 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.140 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.86 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.27 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.4 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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