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CVE-2026-43332 (GCVE-0-2026-43332)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-08 13:31 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:27
VLAI
Title
thermal: core: Fix thermal zone device registration error path
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal: core: Fix thermal zone device registration error path If thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips() fails after registering a thermal zone device, it needs to wait for the tz->removal completion like thermal_zone_device_unregister(), in case user space has managed to take a reference to the thermal zone device's kobject, in which case thermal_release() may not be called by the error path itself and tz may be freed prematurely. Add the missing wait_for_completion() call to the thermal zone device registration error path.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 335176dd8ebaca6493807dceea33c478305667fa , < 9e796001af97a1f7368d5114b7a8533dd98d797a (git)
Affected: 04e6ccfc93c5a1aa1d75a537cf27e418895e20ea , < 604da9c04c218362e1c1457304ebeb9c199d537c (git)
Affected: 04e6ccfc93c5a1aa1d75a537cf27e418895e20ea , < c4c7219e93319bba9ba0765dee597784c78f63c5 (git)
Affected: 04e6ccfc93c5a1aa1d75a537cf27e418895e20ea , < 4d390f0e507dfb16d58f83a58d78d1150dc8b9d7 (git)
Affected: 04e6ccfc93c5a1aa1d75a537cf27e418895e20ea , < 9e07e3b81807edd356e1f794cffa00a428eff443 (git)
Affected: 02871710b93058eb1249d5847c0b2d1c2c3c98ae (git)
Affected: 6.6.14 , < 6.6.134 (semver)
Affected: 6.7.2 , < 6.8 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.134 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.81 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.22 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.12 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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