CVE-2026-46180
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
- Linux Kernel, Ubuntu, Opensuse Tumbleweed
- Linux Linux Kernel
- < 6.6.140, 6.12.88, 6.18.30, 7.0.7, 7.1
- Fix
- Available
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGH
- EPSS
- 0.1% (3th percentile)
- Weakness
- CWE-416
- NVD status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-05-28
CVE-2026-46180 at NVD
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