hwmon: (w83791d) remove fan/pwm 4-5 sysfs group on remove (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-98197
HIGH 7.0

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.12 % · percentile 2 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (w83791d) remove fan/pwm 4-5 sysfs group on remove When the fan/pwm 4-5 pins are not used as GPIO, w83791d_probe() creates the w83791d_group_fanpwm45 sysfs group on the I2C client device. The probe error path removes this group when a later initialization step fails, but the normal remove path only removes w83791d_group. As a result, the optional fan/pwm 4-5 sysfs files can remain after the driver is unbound. The callbacks associated with these files access the driver data, which is devm allocated and released after driver unbind. Leaving the sysfs files behind can therefore result in accesses to stale driver data. Remove w83791d_group_fanpwm45 during normal teardown as well. This issue was found by manual code inspection.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 6e1ecd9b8f1358ed4d099f0c54434240dc40debe < 081e3a78453635fb370b1712809d2af29e60b4c5 ; affected 6e1ecd9b8f1358ed4d099f0c54434240dc40debe < b1d419eb3bc41245c3d3d99dfe1a7b6c45989586 ; affected 6e1ecd9b8f1358ed4d099f0c54434240dc40debe < 2ccf6c512290a288a2d4d7f076430dfb0c6ee476 ; affected 6e1ecd9b8f1358ed4d099f0c54434240dc40debe < f6e2ab72f32d16d71a2549c7ea062dd209f71670 ; affected 6e1ecd9b8f1358ed4d099f0c54434240dc40debe < 2dd37d00f1f1af8e02ffa70ee573c10fd1a76864 ; affected 6e1ecd9b8f1358ed4d099f0c54434240dc40debe < 2c381e6e0f033f2df13bd64905e7232c42f49009
Linux · Linuxaffected 2.6.28 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.28 ; unaffected 5.10.271 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.222 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.189 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.158 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD