CVE-2026-72397

Summary

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

hwmon: (pmbus/core) honor vrm_version in pmbus_data2reg_vid()

pmbus_data2reg_vid() hardcoded the VR11 encoding regardless of the vrm_version configured by the driver, while pmbus_reg2data_vid() already switched on it. Any driver that selects a non-VR11 VID mode and exposes a regulator (or hwmon vout setter) sent dangerously wrong codes to PMBUS_VOUT_COMMAND – e.g. an nvidia195mv part asked for 200 mV got the VR11 clamp to 500 mV encoded as 0xB2, which the chip interprets as 1080 mV.

Mirror pmbus_reg2data_vid() so writes round-trip with reads.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux068c227056b9223fea1a759e08db2558d5cbb5ad < 5bd0d47640395f8a8c34446b62d1781b88869dfaaffected
LinuxLinux068c227056b9223fea1a759e08db2558d5cbb5ad < 828cd614e2af053ca5e1d6da767bbd8a1b5cabfbaffected
LinuxLinux4.3affected
LinuxLinux0 < 4.3unaffected
LinuxLinux7.1.5 <= 7.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.2 <= *unaffected

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