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CVE record · CVE-2026-98196

wifi: brcmsmac: fix UAF in brcms_free_timer()

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0018 · 7th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 6 Oct 2026, 08:44 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux
  • affected 5b435de0d786869c95d1962121af0d7df2542009 to before 10eeb0b29fd7f52487c9ae573e8d79c210a0095d git
  • affected 5b435de0d786869c95d1962121af0d7df2542009 to before 74acccc928851f69184271832d690607877122af git
  • affected 5b435de0d786869c95d1962121af0d7df2542009 to before 050d2486e8ed2c0a23b87249ccd23e8072721391 git
  • affected 5b435de0d786869c95d1962121af0d7df2542009 to before 856dabd5f2617efb23c043be9e1b22a9e6e97c41 git
  • affected 5b435de0d786869c95d1962121af0d7df2542009 to before 2a4841ff0b74b495cddd31ae324e922217fc2f13 git
  • affected 5b435de0d786869c95d1962121af0d7df2542009 to before 1edb3ddd261e973a4d577c0547e63bfa25a8170d git
  • affected 5b435de0d786869c95d1962121af0d7df2542009 to before 777cb6bba59e875b16a1d8897a483a5fecfcd5d2 git
  • affected 5b435de0d786869c95d1962121af0d7df2542009 to before 1eeca1d5e0920fbdad6449768fd2d4364e714180 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 3.2
  • unaffected before 3.2 semver
  • unaffected 5.10.271 to 5.10.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 5.15.222 to 5.15.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.1.189 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.6.158 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.112 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.54 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2.8 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-98196
CNA
Linux
Tags
Published
6 Oct 2026
Updated
19 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0018, the 7th percentile, on 10 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 6 Oct 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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