Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-64213
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hwmon: (lm90) Add lock protection to lm90_alert
Sashiko reports:
lm90_alert() executes in the smbus alert context and calls
lm90_update_confreg() to disable the hardware alert line, without
acquiring hwmon_lock.
Concurrently, sysfs write operations (such as lm90_write_convrate) hold
the hwmon_lock, temporarily modify data->config, and then restore it.
If an alert interrupt occurs concurrently with a sysfs write, the sysfs
path will overwrite the alert handler's modifications to data->config
and the hardware register.
This unintentionally re-enables the hardware alert line while the alarm is
still active, causing an interrupt storm.
Add the missing lock to lm90_alert() to solve the problem.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.002
EPSS Ranking 6.2%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.5
References
Products affected by CVE-2026-64213
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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:6.19.10
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.11
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.12
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.13
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.14
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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:6.19.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.6
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.7
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.8
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.9
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.10
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.2
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.5
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.6
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.7
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.8
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.9
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1