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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-72396" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:56:23.067Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:13:52.535Z" 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-2026-72396" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72396.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72396" title: "hwmon: adm1275: Prevent reading uninitialized stack" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nhwmon: adm1275: Prevent reading uninitialized stack\n\nWhile adding support for the ROHM BD127X0 hot-swap controllers, sashiko\nreported an error in device-name comparison, which can lead to reading\nuninitialized stack memory.\n\nQuoting Sashiko:\n\nThis is a pre-existing issue, but I noticed that just before this block in\nadm1275_probe(), there might be an out-of-bounds stack read:\n\n ret = i2c_smbus_read_block_data(client, PMBUS_MFR_MODEL, block_buffer);\n if (ret \u003c 0) { ... }\n for (mid = adm1275_id; mid-\u003ename[0]; mid++) {\n if (!strncasecmp(mid-\u003ename, block_buffer, strlen(mid-\u003ename)))\n break;\n }\n\nSince i2c_smbus_read_block_data() reads up to 32 bytes into the\nuninitialized stack array block_buffer without appending a null\nterminator, strncasecmp() could read past the valid bytes returned in ret.\n\nFor example, if the device returns a shorter string like \"adm12\", checking\nit against \"adm1275\" up to the length of \"adm1275\" will continue reading\ninto uninitialized stack bounds.\n\nPrevent reading uninitialized memory by zeroing the stack array." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"87102808d03948c825c3bdc48316e48f6422fd7e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"57d583f069fa9d3d0c0831e34b967d1f61edae94"},{"version":"87102808d03948c825c3bdc48316e48f6422fd7e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"82e4ab03a6ab9b87667410f5143bc484d7a62bdc"},{"version":"87102808d03948c825c3bdc48316e48f6422fd7e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c9e04a52663bc6651c06c2427df088b751062bd6"},{"version":"87102808d03948c825c3bdc48316e48f6422fd7e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"39a581bd64a0e91112ec8017a2dd4e70c1336e99"},{"version":"87102808d03948c825c3bdc48316e48f6422fd7e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aa35cee30686e6be3c890bf741429c5025d55abe"},{"version":"87102808d03948c825c3bdc48316e48f6422fd7e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"36554592e2f5cac16ff8bf73720d38a6d9ef4a20"},{"version":"87102808d03948c825c3bdc48316e48f6422fd7e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"93b96e723bdcba6172a5814262be875abcc5d269"},{"version":"87102808d03948c825c3bdc48316e48f6422fd7e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"553f9517813912a5ab661af5504485d96824a61c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.3"},{"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":"6.12.97","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","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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