U.S. flag   An official website of the United States government
Dot gov

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Https

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock (Dot gov) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-72395

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 8/15/2026 2:22:13 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

hwmon: (pmbus) Fix passing events to regulator core

Sashiko reports:

Commit 754bd2b4a084 ("hwmon: (pmbus/core) Protect regulator operations with
mutex") introduced a worker to batch regulator events over time using
atomic_or(). The delayed worker then passes the combined bitmask unmodified
to regulator_notifier_call_chain().

The core regulator subsystem's regulator_handle_critical() function
evaluates the event parameter using a strict switch statement. If
multiple distinct faults occur before the worker runs (e.g.,
REGULATOR_EVENT_UNDER_VOLTAGE | REGULATOR_EVENT_OVER_CURRENT), the combined
bitmask fails to match any case. This leaves the reason as NULL and
completely bypasses the critical hw_protection_trigger().

Fix the problem by passing events bit by bit to the regulator event
handler.
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2106bf4056858fcce3624e0c51f6fee4d41d3f2f
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/489291b6b56978cc50d34e8e13f9636ea296ba8a
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48fe43666950efefb7ac5fbdc012c1b3604096bf
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ef7dacd44216bf5ea05c8aef49eba4d145f4047
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0ff6b6ae9c5183ef701ece7016698bde5a5bfba
Added Affected

                  
                
              
[{"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","programFiles":["drivers/hwmon/pmbus/pmbus_core.c"],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","versions":[{"version":"b26849cffaa7c43355b82e9bef3725e786973a1a","lessThan":"2106bf4056858fcce3624e0c51f6fee4d41d3f2f","versionType":"git","status":"affected"},{"version":"acf04e2863132f6d9222f71f3a76fb9782cbe061","lessThan":"48fe43666950efefb7ac5fbdc012c1b3604096bf","versionType":"git","status":"affected"},{"version":"4e9d723d9f198b86f6882a84c501ba1f39e8d055","lessThan":"489291b6b56978cc50d34e8e13f9636ea296ba8a","versionType":"git","status":"affected"},{"version":"754bd2b4a084b90b5e7b630e1f423061a9b9b761","lessThan":"b0ff6b6ae9c5183ef701ece7016698bde5a5bfba","versionType":"git","status":"affected"},{"version":"754bd2b4a084b90b5e7b630e1f423061a9b9b761","lessThan":"9ef7dacd44216bf5ea05c8aef49eba4d145f4047","versionType":"git","status":"affected"},{"version":"2c77ae315f3ce9d2c8e1609be74c9358c1fe4e07","versionType":"git","status":"affected"},{"version":"6.6.143","lessThan":"6.6.145","versionType":"semver","status":"affected"},{"version":"6.12.92","lessThan":"6.12.97","versionType":"semver","status":"affected"},{"version":"6.18.21","lessThan":"6.18.40","versionType":"semver","status":"affected"},{"version":"6.19.11","lessThan":"6.20","versionType":"semver","status":"affected"}]},{"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","programFiles":["drivers/hwmon/pmbus/pmbus_core.c"],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","versions":[{"version":"7.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","lessThan":"7.0","versionType":"semver","status":"unaffected"},{"version":"6.6.145","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*","versionType":"semver","status":"unaffected"},{"version":"6.12.97","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*","versionType":"semver","status":"unaffected"},{"version":"6.18.40","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*","versionType":"semver","status":"unaffected"},{"version":"7.1.5","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*","versionType":"semver","status":"unaffected"},{"version":"7.2-rc2","lessThanOrEqual":"*","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","status":"unaffected"}]}]