CVE-2024-50027: thermal: core: Free tzp copy along with the thermal zone

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-10-21 · updated 2026-08-04
Weakness: CWE-416

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal: core: Free tzp copy along with the thermal zone The object pointed to by tz->tzp may still be accessed after being freed in thermal_zone_device_unregister(), so move the freeing of it to the point after the removal completion has been completed at which it cannot be accessed any more.

Affected products

Linux kernel: from 6.4 through 6.11.4; 6.12-rc1, 6.12-rc2

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/827a07525c099f54d3b15110408824541ec66b3c
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bdb0d40507c85bee33c2a71fde7b2e857346f112
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eabe285e1c629a719d6e68fc319939c63b83bf22

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