What is CVE-2026-74604?

CVE-2026-74604 is a unscored severity Linux kernel vulnerability. CVE-2026-74604 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2026-74604?

CVE-2026-74604 has a CVSS score of pending NVD analysis out of 10, rated awaiting scoring severity.

Is there a patch available for CVE-2026-74604?

Yes, CVE-2026-74604 has been patched. Fixed versions include 5.15.216, 6.1.183, 6.6.152 and others.

Is CVE-2026-74604 actively exploited?

CVE-2026-74604 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

CVE-2026-74604

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.

Package Linux Kernel

Published 2026-08-22

Last modified 2026-08-22

Patch available

Yes

Affected versions

Fixed in 5.15.216, 6.1.183, 6.6.152, 6.12.104, 6.18.45, 7.1.9, 7.2 and their respective stable series.

Fixed in

✓ 5.15.216 5.15.x ✓ 6.1.183 6.1.x ✓ 6.6.152 6.6.x ✓ 6.12.104 6.12.x ✓ 6.18.45 6.18.x ✓ 7.1.9 7.1.x ✓ 7.2

References

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Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-74604?

CVE-2026-74604 is a unscored severity Linux kernel vulnerability . CVE-2026-74604 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Is there a patch available for CVE-2026-74604?

Yes. CVE-2026-74604 has been patched. Fixed versions include 5.15.216, 6.1.183, 6.6.152 and others.
Is CVE-2026-74604 actively exploited?

No. CVE-2026-74604 has not been confirmed as actively exploited. It is not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.