CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2026-53093
Medium (5.5) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: brcmfmac: Fix error pointer dereference
The function brcmf_chip_add_core() can return an error pointer and is
not checked. Add checks for error pointer.
Detected by Smatch:
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/chip.c:1010 brcmf_chip_recognition() error:
'core' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/chip.c:1013 brcmf_chip_recognition() error:
'core' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/chip.c:1016 brcmf_chip_recognition() error:
'core' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/chip.c:1019 brcmf_chip_recognition() error:
'core' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/chip.c:1022 brcmf_chip_recognition() error:
'core' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()
[add missing wifi: prefix]
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 5% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-476
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e0e5a43ed126f896a4ad31ade66c90270601bae
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/334c68750eee84c2327db1d152be83ff5ad8e20b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99ef547659178eef6d6ba4738a9d989ce90cf909
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3b45090a91e2f0b9715870d8f8d9ca2fdfbc1af
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd6c906e0c4af6d5d0c49c3c4ee090b4913da17d