CVE-2026-45925 (GCVE-0-2026-45925)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-27 12:17 – Updated: 2026-05-27 12:17
VLAI
Title
thermal/of: Fix reference leak in thermal_of_cm_lookup()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal/of: Fix reference leak in thermal_of_cm_lookup() In thermal_of_cm_lookup(), tr_np is obtained via of_parse_phandle(), but never released. Use the __free(device_node) cleanup attribute to automatically release the node and fix the leak. [ rjw: Changelog edits ]
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: e11df3bffde16fd3b6843aadfb921b5be0f8b55a , < 8af710156c53cdb392d529497ef2b3a10a1f9370 (git)
Affected: 423de5b5bc5b267586b449abd1c4fde562aa0cf9 , < 8344d5da9df74fdbef676214d0c482fc822a01ca (git)
Affected: 423de5b5bc5b267586b449abd1c4fde562aa0cf9 , < 025796ccd7f9f2e013e12319de26b6c021a80c1f (git)
Affected: 423de5b5bc5b267586b449abd1c4fde562aa0cf9 , < a1fe789a96fe47733c133134fd264cb7ca832395 (git)
Affected: a1e9e19a70eed67a69ca697368739ea1a3ba5780 (git)
Affected: 6.12.18 , < 6.12.75 (semver)
Affected: 6.13.6 , < 6.14 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.75 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.14 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.4 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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