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FKIE_CVE-2026-80696

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-28 08:16 - Updated: 2026-08-29 07:16

Severity

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (ltc4282) Fix reading the minimum alarm voltage Coverity reports an out-of-bounds access when reading the minimum alarm voltage for the VGPIO channel. Add the missing return statement to fix the problem.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00feb1cce93dab948a299b69753d99c681d45a0b
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08aee6d45eefc9e0b94c21bd442f47b21d64fa2c
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/338d655fe09b95a88788c6ac8b1651ca8db9ae51
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0668ac20feaa3fff9e0c0548556368dbbd2d439

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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    }
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  "lastModified": "2026-08-29T07:16:51.693",
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CVE-2026-80696 (GCVE-0-2026-80696)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-28 06:53 – Updated: 2026-08-29 06:22

Title

hwmon: (ltc4282) Fix reading the minimum alarm voltage

Summary

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/338d655fe09b95a88…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08aee6d45eefc9e0b…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0668ac20feaa3fff…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00feb1cce93dab948…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: cbc29538dbf7d7400f1ffc5dd5713e6a551463a0 , < 338d655fe09b95a88788c6ac8b1651ca8db9ae51 (git) Affected: cbc29538dbf7d7400f1ffc5dd5713e6a551463a0 , < 08aee6d45eefc9e0b94c21bd442f47b21d64fa2c (git) Affected: cbc29538dbf7d7400f1ffc5dd5713e6a551463a0 , < a0668ac20feaa3fff9e0c0548556368dbbd2d439 (git) Affected: cbc29538dbf7d7400f1ffc5dd5713e6a551463a0 , < 00feb1cce93dab948a299b69753d99c681d45a0b (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.9 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.9 (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.103 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.44 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1.8 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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CVE-2026-80696 (GCVE-0-2026-80696)

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