CVE-2026-46180

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
28/05/2026
Last modified:
28/05/2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> wifi: brcmfmac: Fix potential use-after-free issue when stopping watchdog task<br /> <br /> Watchdog task might end between send_sig() and kthread_stop() calls, what<br /> results in the use-after-free issue. Fix this by increasing watchdog task<br /> reference count before calling send_sig() and dropping it by switching to<br /> kthread_stop_put().

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