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Tracker / CVE-2026-53093

CVE-2026-53093

Medium 5.5

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]

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 3.15 → 5.10.258
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.209
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.175
linux linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.18.33
linux linux_kernel · 6.19 → 7.0.10
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.141
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.91

Analysis

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