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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-64372

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 7/25/2026 6:17:20 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

                  
                
              
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cpufreq: pcc: fix use-after-free and double free in _OSC evaluation

pcc_cpufreq_do_osc() calls acpi_evaluate_object() twice for the
two-phase _OSC negotiation. Between the two calls it freed
output.pointer but left output.length unchanged. Since
acpi_evaluate_object() treats a non-zero length with a non-NULL
pointer as an existing buffer to write into, the second call wrote
into freed memory (use-after-free). The subsequent kfree(output.pointer)
at out_free then freed the same pointer a second time (double free).

Reset output.pointer to NULL and output.length to ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER
after freeing the first result, so ACPICA allocates a fresh buffer for
each phase independently.
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e3c739a2f6fc1de5b19a8839ab80696b9cb2a29
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/266d3dd8b757b48a576e90f018b51f7b7563cc32
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5cdb25f144b101083d8bf3fd023ad87fbe6850d7
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/632666a63116d8061c62a988d1ca39dcd6d27c9b
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ba6f6783be2ffeb2cbcdc9321c4b9f708f796f7
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e454e9d0bc03446d610ee49abec9dfd424f6541
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/982c9f92d57bda2b769851ff6d90d43dcf5f3734
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a36ca93a8ba57464e521d70a337d37f069064111
Added Affected

                  
                
              
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