CVE-2026-72396: hwmon: adm1275: Prevent reading uninitialized stack

Published Aug 15, 2026
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Updated

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 adm1275probe(), there might be an out-of-bounds stack read:

ret = i2csmbusreadblockdata(client, PMBUSMFRMODEL, blockbuffer); if (ret < 0) { ... } for (mid = adm1275id; mid->name[0]; mid++) { if (!strncasecmp(mid->name, blockbuffer, strlen(mid->name))) break; }

Since i2csmbusreadblockdata() reads up to 32 bytes into the uninitialized stack array blockbuffer 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.

Event History

Aug 15, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·05:56 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·05:56 AM
Description
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