CVE-2026-98199

Summary

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

hwmon: (pmbus/core) increase number of phases and add new mask

Increase the number of phases to 16 as a new upcoming device supports such a number.

While at it, add a new mask for controlling the source of the output voltage.

Note (groeck):

This patch was meant to prepare for support of MAX20826 and compatible devices, which support more than 10 phases per page. However, Sashiko reports that the mp2975 driver already supports up to 14 phases, and the mp2856 driver supports up to 12 phases. This already has the potential for out-of-bounds writes when probing the affected chips, making this patch a bug fix.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux2c6fcbb211494f1ff6ef384776944b9e04f4c14c < 272006a52cbd9c8342cead4d3eb9221ebbe8b985affected
LinuxLinux2c6fcbb211494f1ff6ef384776944b9e04f4c14c < b32607710a20ad983f9fe4a3051892584c0641a4affected
LinuxLinux2c6fcbb211494f1ff6ef384776944b9e04f4c14c < 66368f682a53f3a3842e20eebb571a59809c52c0affected
LinuxLinux2c6fcbb211494f1ff6ef384776944b9e04f4c14c < 1ec644c94466834f8cb6b7ba12636fd047bdfddaaffected
LinuxLinux2c6fcbb211494f1ff6ef384776944b9e04f4c14c < 9558fc1e042ac6b12dd63c37d2c51be4ec86d402affected
LinuxLinux2c6fcbb211494f1ff6ef384776944b9e04f4c14c < b49f100a15b8876deccf8c59f41af92b8e25fd74affected
LinuxLinux2c6fcbb211494f1ff6ef384776944b9e04f4c14c < 06bd6794b5fd2163880ac3bfe973d4cc61f359f3affected
LinuxLinux5.10affected
LinuxLinux0 < 5.10unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.222 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.189 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.158 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.112 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18.54 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.2.8 <= 7.2.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.3-rc4 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

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