CVE-2026-72396

hwmon: adm1275: Prevent reading uninitialized stack

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Aug 15, 2026
Updated
Aug 17, 2026
Reserved
Aug 9, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

hwmon: adm1275: Prevent reading uninitialized stack

While adding support for the ROHM BD127X0 hot-swap controllers, sashiko reported an error in device-name comparison, which can lead to reading uninitialized stack memory.

Quoting Sashiko:

This is a pre-existing issue, but I noticed that just before this block in adm1275_probe(), there might be an out-of-bounds stack read:

ret = i2c_smbus_read_block_data(client, PMBUS_MFR_MODEL, block_buffer); if (ret < 0) { ... } for (mid = adm1275_id; mid->name[0]; mid++) { if (!strncasecmp(mid->name, block_buffer, strlen(mid->name))) break; }

Since i2c_smbus_read_block_data() reads up to 32 bytes into the uninitialized stack array block_buffer without appending a null terminator, strncasecmp() could read past the valid bytes returned in ret.

For example, if the device returns a shorter string like "adm12", checking it against "adm1275" up to the length of "adm1275" will continue reading into uninitialized stack bounds.

Prevent reading uninitialized memory by zeroing the stack array.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 87102808d03948c825c3bdc48316e48f6422fd7e to before 57d583f069fa9d3d0c0831e34b967d1f61edae94Affected
  • 87102808d03948c825c3bdc48316e48f6422fd7e to before 82e4ab03a6ab9b87667410f5143bc484d7a62bdcAffected
  • 87102808d03948c825c3bdc48316e48f6422fd7e to before c9e04a52663bc6651c06c2427df088b751062bd6Affected
  • 87102808d03948c825c3bdc48316e48f6422fd7e to before 39a581bd64a0e91112ec8017a2dd4e70c1336e99Affected
  • 87102808d03948c825c3bdc48316e48f6422fd7e to before aa35cee30686e6be3c890bf741429c5025d55abeAffected
  • 87102808d03948c825c3bdc48316e48f6422fd7e to before 36554592e2f5cac16ff8bf73720d38a6d9ef4a20Affected
  • 87102808d03948c825c3bdc48316e48f6422fd7e to before 93b96e723bdcba6172a5814262be875abcc5d269Affected
  • 87102808d03948c825c3bdc48316e48f6422fd7e to before 553f9517813912a5ab661af5504485d96824a61cAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.3Affected
  • before 3.3Not affected
  • 5.10.261 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.212 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.178 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.145 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.97 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.40 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.5 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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