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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-64373" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-07-25T08:50:25.427Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:54:23.307Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64373" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64373.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64373" title: "cpufreq: Fix hotplug-suspend race during reboot" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncpufreq: Fix hotplug-suspend race during reboot\n\nDuring system reboot, cpufreq_suspend() is called via the\nkernel_restart() -\u003e device_shutdown() path. Unlike the normal system\nsuspend path, the reboot path does not call freeze_processes(), so\nuserspace processes and kernel threads remain active.\n\nThis allows CPU hotplug operations to run concurrently with\ncpufreq_suspend(). The original code has no synchronization with CPU\nhotplug, leading to a race condition where governor_data can be freed\nby the hotplug path while cpufreq_suspend() is still accessing it,\nresulting in a null pointer dereference:\n\n Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference\n Call Trace:\n do_kernel_fault+0x28/0x3c\n cpufreq_suspend+0xdc/0x160\n device_shutdown+0x18/0x200\n kernel_restart+0x40/0x80\n arm64_sys_reboot+0x1b0/0x200\n\nFix this by adding cpus_read_lock()/cpus_read_unlock() to\ncpufreq_suspend() to block CPU hotplug operations while suspend is in\nprogress.\n\n[ rjw: Changelog edits ]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"65650b35133ff20f0c9ef0abd5c3c66dbce3ae57","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6d5dd354c37abaf4d60400c55c71f23ba2b33639"},{"version":"65650b35133ff20f0c9ef0abd5c3c66dbce3ae57","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9103078c7b3091a2fbb52af176f95982ee7dd7f8"},{"version":"65650b35133ff20f0c9ef0abd5c3c66dbce3ae57","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cd4524ff6567fa4458a5bec4b017105e671d393e"},{"version":"65650b35133ff20f0c9ef0abd5c3c66dbce3ae57","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"73255d702c7560185fd5951aadcf7eb057c2f453"},{"version":"65650b35133ff20f0c9ef0abd5c3c66dbce3ae57","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a0ef2fc89d28ca62923376c4b8ffaa57136a36be"},{"version":"65650b35133ff20f0c9ef0abd5c3c66dbce3ae57","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6e175c00c62dca3d91b987015808b5d52e8db2b4"},{"version":"65650b35133ff20f0c9ef0abd5c3c66dbce3ae57","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a0106b41f9a724868d390b8b3b4ea5ca0e04ea53"},{"version":"65650b35133ff20f0c9ef0abd5c3c66dbce3ae57","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a9029dd55696c651ee46912afa2a166fa456bb3e"},{"version":"8bfa06ea6e81bf08d2132d7e70c2b5313b34caf8","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"7ccf3b8b7a12dc9da158c2e699c36d04b2496944","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5f466713989250938624afa79dc33bae20920700","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"89ab39da1452d272007acc5912d4008047b86706","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"cb4b4601f910c78d2b49f637a12ef98b41cb76a9","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4.4.198","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.5"},{"version":"4.9.198","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"},{"version":"4.14.151","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"4.19.81","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"5.3.8","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4"},{"version":"5.10.261","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.212","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.145","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.96","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.39","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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