Vulnerability Bulletins

CVE-2026-46180

   
Affected software LINUX KERNEL
 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: brcmfmac: Fix potential use-after-free issue when stopping watchdog task

Watchdog task might end between send_sig() and kthread_stop() calls, what
results in the use-after-free issue. Fix this by increasing watchdog task
reference count before calling send_sig() and dropping it by switching to
kthread_stop_put().

Link:

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-46180