Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Revert “thermal/drivers/hwmon: Cleanup coding style a bit”
Revert commit 030a48b0f6ce (“thermal/drivers/hwmon: Cleanup coding style a bit”) that introduced a use-after-free into the error path of thermal_add_hwmon_sysfs() by removing a valid check from it.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , Debian 10 ELS , Debian 11 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , TuxCare 9.8 ESU , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- linux @ 4.19.0 (+8 more)
Fixes
KernelCare state
Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.
| Operating system | Status | Covered kernels |
|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU | Released |
35 kernels
|
| AlmaLinux 9.6 ESU | In Rollout |
20 kernels
|
| Debian 12 | Released |
43 kernels
|
| Debian 13 | Released |
15 kernels
|
| Oracle Linux 8 UEK 7 | Released |
112 kernels
|
| Oracle Linux 9 UEK 7 | Released |
112 kernels
|
| Proxmox VE 7 5.15 | In Rollout |
47 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 20.04 HWE AWS | Released |
57 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 22.04 | Released |
102 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 22.04 AWS | Released |
93 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 22.04 Azure | Released |
83 kernels
|