thermal: core: Fix thermal zone device registration error path

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• linux linux kernel6.6.14 and later · before 6.6.134
• linux linux kernel6.8 and later · before 6.12.81
• linux linux kernel6.13 and later · before 6.18.22
• linux linux kernel6.19 and later · before 6.19.12
• linux linux kernel6.7.2
• linux linux kernel7.0

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Linux). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• Linux Linux

  • 02871710b93058eb1249d5847c0b2d1c2c3c98ae, 6.8affected
  • 335176dd8ebaca6493807dceea33c478305667fa and later · before 9e796001af97a1f7368d5114b7a8533dd98d797aaffected · git
  • 04e6ccfc93c5a1aa1d75a537cf27e418895e20ea and later · before 604da9c04c218362e1c1457304ebeb9c199d537caffected · git
  • 04e6ccfc93c5a1aa1d75a537cf27e418895e20ea and later · before c4c7219e93319bba9ba0765dee597784c78f63c5affected · git
  • 04e6ccfc93c5a1aa1d75a537cf27e418895e20ea and later · before 4d390f0e507dfb16d58f83a58d78d1150dc8b9d7affected · git
  • 04e6ccfc93c5a1aa1d75a537cf27e418895e20ea and later · before 9e07e3b81807edd356e1f794cffa00a428eff443affected · git
  • 6.6.14 and later · before 6.6.134affected · semver
  • 6.7.2 and later · before 6.8affected · semver
  • before 6.8not affected · semver
  • 6.6.134 and later · up to and including 6.6.*not affected · semver

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2022-0847A flaw was found in the way the "flags" member of the new pipe buffer structure was lacking proper initialization in copy_page_to_iter_pipe KEV
  89Now
• CVE-2021-22555Heap Out-Of-Bounds Write in Netfilter IP6T_SO_SET_REPLACEKEV
  85Now
• CVE-2016-5195Race condition in mm/gup.c in the Linux kernel 2.x through 4.x before 4.8.3 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging incorrect haKEV
  83Now

Published before and after this one in the same product

• ← EarlierCVE-2026-43325May 8, 2026 · wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't send a 6E related command when not supported
  22Monitor
• ← EarlierCVE-2026-43329May 8, 2026 · netfilter: flowtable: strictly check for maximum number of actions
  31Monitor
• Later →CVE-2026-43334May 8, 2026 · Bluetooth: SMP: force responder MITM requirements before building the pairing response
  35Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

After a memory region is freed, another reference pointing to it is still used. By then, the same region may have been allocated for different data.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1free(dev->buf);2/* ... another thread is still running ... */3process(dev->buf);

1lock(&dev->lock);2free(dev->buf);3dev->buf = NULL;4unlock(&dev->lock);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.