Use-after-free in Linux kernel - CVE-2026-97475
Published: September 24, 2026
Vulnerability identifier: #VU152014
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 0 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-97475
CWE-ID: CWE-416
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local privileged user to trigger a use-after-free.
The vulnerability exists due to failure to unregister thermal cooling devices in the Tegra SoCTherm driver when the platform driver is removed. A local privileged user can cause the driver to be removed and trigger use of a stale thermal framework reference to trigger a use-after-free.
The stale cooling-device references retain devdata pointers to memory freed during platform-device cleanup.
Affected software
Linux kernel
How to mitigate CVE-2026-97475
Install security update from vendor's repository.
Linux kernel - update to 7.0 rc3