CVE-2026-89462 in Linux
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di MITRE • 11/09/2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
power: supply: max17040: propagate register read errors
max17040_get_vcell() and max17040_get_soc() ignore errors returned by regmap_read(). When an I2C transfer fails, the uninitialized register value is converted and reported to userspace as a valid voltage or state of charge. The polling worker can also replace the cached state of charge with the bogus value and emit a spurious change event.
Propagate read errors through the power supply get_property callback and keep the last valid cached state of charge when polling fails.
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