CVE-2026-98200
Received
Received - Intake
Use-After-Free in Linux Kernel hwmon hp-wmi-sensors
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-98200, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-10-06
Last updated on: 2026-10-06
Assigner: kernel.org
Description
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hwmon: (hp-wmi-sensors) Fix use-after-free in fungible_show()
nsensor->current_state is dynamically replaced as the sensor's state
changes. update_numeric_sensor_from_wobj() does this by freeing the
old string and installing a new one:
if (strcmp(trimmed, nsensor->current_state)) {
new_string = hp_wmi_strdup(dev, trimmed);
if (new_string) {
devm_kfree(dev, nsensor->current_state);
nsensor->current_state = new_string;
}
}
This function is only ever called from hp_wmi_update_info() while
state->lock is held, so the free-and-replace itself is properly
serialized against concurrent updates.
fungible_show(), however, reads the same pointer after the lock has
already been dropped:
err = hp_wmi_update_info(state, info);
if (err)
return err;
switch (prop) {
...
case HP_WMI_PROPERTY_CURRENT_STATE:
seq_printf(seqf, "%s\n", nsensor->current_state);
break;
hp_wmi_update_info() takes state->lock internally and releases it
before returning, so by the time fungible_show() dereferences
nsensor->current_state in seq_printf(), no lock is held. Two
processes reading a sensor's current_state debugfs entry at
overlapping times (or one reading it while another read of the same
sensor triggers a refresh) can race: one thread's seq_printf() can
be part-way through printing the string at the moment another
thread's call into update_numeric_sensor_from_wobj() frees it with
devm_kfree() and installs a new pointer, causing a use-after-free
read.
Take state->lock around the read in fungible_show() as well, so it
can never run concurrently with the free-and-replace in
update_numeric_sensor_from_wobj().
CVSS Scores
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Meta Information
Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | 23902f98f8d4811ab84dde6419569a5b374f8122 |
| Linux | Linux | 23902f98f8d4811ab84dde6419569a5b374f8122 |
| Linux | Linux | 23902f98f8d4811ab84dde6419569a5b374f8122 |
| Linux | Linux | 23902f98f8d4811ab84dde6419569a5b374f8122 |
| Linux | Linux | 23902f98f8d4811ab84dde6419569a5b374f8122 |
| Linux | Linux | 6.5 |
Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-UNKNOWN |
