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    "id": "CVE-2026-46021",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46021",
    "idYear": 2026,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2026-05-27T12:56:23.515Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T01:19:59.016Z",
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      "source": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"
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      "title": "thermal: core: Fix thermal zone governor cleanup issues",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nthermal: core: Fix thermal zone governor cleanup issues\n\nIf thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips() fails after adding\na thermal governor to the thermal zone being registered, the\ngovernor is not removed from it as appropriate which may lead to\na memory leak.\n\nIn turn, thermal_zone_device_unregister() calls thermal_set_governor()\nwithout acquiring the thermal zone lock beforehand which may race with\na governor update via sysfs and may lead to a use-after-free in that\ncase.\n\nAddress these issues by adding two thermal_set_governor() calls, one to\nthermal_release() to remove the governor from the given thermal zone,\nand one to the thermal zone registration error path to cover failures\npreceding the thermal zone device registration.",
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