Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-45914
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Revert "hwmon: (ibmpex) fix use-after-free in high/low store"
This reverts commit 6946c726c3f4c36f0f049e6f97e88c510b15f65d.
Jean Delvare points out that the patch does not completely
fix the reported problem, that it in fact introduces a
(new) race condition, and that it may actually not be needed in
the first place.
Various AI reviews agree. Specific and relevant AI feedback:
"
This reordering sets the driver data to NULL before removing the sensor
attributes in the loop below.
ibmpex_show_sensor() retrieves this driver data via dev_get_drvdata() but
does not check if it is NULL before dereferencing it to access
data->sensors[].
If a userspace process reads a sensor file (like temp1_input) while this
delete function is running, could it race with the dev_set_drvdata(...,
NULL) call here and crash in ibmpex_show_sensor()?
Would it be safer to keep the original order where device_remove_file() is
called before clearing the driver data? device_remove_file() should wait
for any active sysfs callbacks to complete, which might already prevent the
use-after-free this patch intends to fix.
"
Revert the offending patch. If it can be shown that the originally reported
alleged race condition does indeed exist, it can always be re-introduced
with a complete fix.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 2.6%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.8
Products affected by CVE-2026-45914
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.10.248
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.10.249
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.10.250
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.10.251
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1.160
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1.161
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1.162
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1.163
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1.164
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.64
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.65
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.66
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.67
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.68
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.69
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.70
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.72
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.74
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.10
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.11
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.13
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.5
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.6
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.7
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.8
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.9
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.120
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.121
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.122
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.123
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.124
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.125
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.127