# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74552"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T12:27:58.829Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:38:49.811Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-74552"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74552.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74552"
title: "hwmon: (lm90) Only report alarms if driver is ready"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nhwmon: (lm90) Only report alarms if driver is ready\n\nUserspace can read sysfs attributes before driver registration is complete,\nimmediately after devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info() has been called.\nAt that time, data-\u003ehwmon_dev is not yet initialized. This can trigger\na NULL pointer access since lm90_update_device() and with it\nlm90_update_alarms_locked() will be called. This call schedules\nreport_work and lm90_report_alarms(), which passes the still-NULL\ndata-\u003ehwmon_dev to hwmon_notify_event() and triggers a NULL pointer\ndereference.\n\nFix the problem by only scheduling the report and alert workers\ndata-\u003ehwmon_dev is set."
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