CVE-2026-74553 json
hwmon: (nct6775-core) Fix number of temperature registers for NCT6116
published 2026-08-15 2 mo ago modified 2026-08-19 2 mo ago also EUVD-2026-59618
- cvss
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- not scored
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 5%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hwmon: (nct6775-core) Fix number of temperature registers for NCT6116
Unlike NCT6106, NCT6116 only has three temperature registers, and with it only three temperature source and temperature source configuration registers. The register addresses match those of NCT6106 and can be re-used.
The code used a separate array to list the temperature source registers for NCT6116, but used the size of the NCT6106 register array to set the number of registers. The NCT6106 register array provides six addresses, while the temperature source register array for NCT6116 only provides three addresses. This causes a KASAN report.
BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in nct6775_probe+0x936/0x46f0 [nct6775] Read of size 2 at addr ffffffffc19561a6 by task modprobe/954 ... Call Trace: dump_stack+0x7d/0xa7 print_address_description.constprop.0+0x1c/0x220 ? __kasan_kmalloc.constprop.0+0xc9/0xd0 ? __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x194/0x5b0 ? nct6775_probe+0x936/0x46f0 [nct6775] ? nct6775_probe+0x936/0x46f0 [nct6775] ...
Fix the problem by hard-coding the number of temperature and temperature configuration registers to three for NCT6116. Drop the unnecessary NCT6116_REG_TEMP_SOURCE array and re-use NCT6106_REG_TEMP_SOURCE.
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 6.1.183, 6.6.151, 6.12.103, 6.18.44, 7.1.8, 7.2
- linux Debian 12 6.1.187-1
- linux Debian 13 6.12.105-1
- linux Debian 14 7.1.8-1
- linux-6.12 Debian 12 6.12.107-1~deb12u1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-74553
- linux Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-42.42
- linux-aws Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1016.17
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1016.18
- linux-ibm Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1017.17
- linux-riscv Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-42.42.1
- linux-oracle Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1015.16
- linux-hwe-7.0 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 7.0.0-42.42~24.04.1
- linux-oem-7.0 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1017.17
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-74553
Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0
- kernel-64kb SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.84.1
- kernel-syms SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.84.1
- kernel-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.84.1
- kernel-source SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.84.1
- kernel-default SLE Workstation Extension 15 SP7, SLE Module for Legacy 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 +2 more 6.4.0-150700.53.84.1
- kernel-zfcpdump SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.84.1
- kernel-obs-build SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.84.1
- kernel-default-base SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.84.1.150700.17.47.1
suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:4706-1SUSE-SU-2026:4640-1SUSE-SU-2026:24316-1SUSE-SU-2026:24315-1SUSE-SU-2026:24181-1SUSE-SU-2026:24182-1
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/739d7fc6b6f662c8286912157f0c4912388aa292 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a87dfaa05c3c9d3a4cdb7eafc1ab4abc84f6eef commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/16c45bb3d3434cfb9ea264fa52090d0823240465 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a42d727dae5701deac8bb2a75effadae7d681153 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7f47f5246cd6c3199e5fb2d4109cc53e766e3f0 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0e8adb2ccb43009796897ced09f91636685c9d3 commit
Vendor advisories
What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.
red hat product security vex CVE-2026-74553 updated cvss 5.5
kernel: hwmon: (nct6775-core) Fix number of temperature registers for NCT6116
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernelaffected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 morenot affected: vulnerable code not present
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
Exploit prediction
0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/739d7fc6b6f662c8286912157f0c4912388aa292
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/9a87dfaa05c3c9d3a4cdb7eafc1ab4abc84f6eef
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/16c45bb3d3434cfb9ea264fa52090d0823240465
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/a42d727dae5701deac8bb2a75effadae7d681153
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/a7f47f5246cd6c3199e5fb2d4109cc53e766e3f0
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/b0e8adb2ccb43009796897ced09f91636685c9d3
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2026-74553
- NVD CVE-2026-74553
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