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Tracker / CVE-2026-46180

CVE-2026-46180

High 7.8

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().

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 3.3 → 6.6.140
linux linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.18.30
linux linux_kernel · 6.19 → 7.0.7
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.88

Analysis

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