CVE-2026-68192 (GCVE-0-2026-68192)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 12:00 – Updated: 2026-08-19 16:31
VLAI
Title
wifi: brcmfmac: make release_scratchbuffers idempotent
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: brcmfmac: make release_scratchbuffers idempotent brcmf_pcie_release_scratchbuffers() frees the shared.scratch and shared.ringupd DMA buffers with dma_free_coherent() but does not clear the pointers afterwards, unlike the sibling release_ringbuffers() which NULLs commonrings/flowrings/idxbuf on release. Both the bus_reset .reset callback (brcmf_pcie_reset) and brcmf_pcie_remove() call release_scratchbuffers. When reset teardown has run before removal, remove's own teardown would call dma_free_coherent() a second time on the already-freed DMA allocation. NULL the pointers after free, matching release_ringbuffers(), so a later release observes that the allocation has already been released. This patch makes repeated sequential release safe; the reset-work lifetime is handled separately by the following patch. This issue was found by an in-house static analysis tool.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 4684997d9eea29380000e062755aa6d368d789a3 , < 81c58a206d1deee01f4c29236d4154c0872f2a38 (git)
Affected: 4684997d9eea29380000e062755aa6d368d789a3 , < 382ee00b2d1e31869ae576a60d3fbe7a2153512f (git)
Affected: 4684997d9eea29380000e062755aa6d368d789a3 , < 739b686aecdb14a6065300ea53401f043e51fd22 (git)
Affected: 4684997d9eea29380000e062755aa6d368d789a3 , < b7d1d8cb1bdca56aecebacd2896615da0acc126a (git)
Affected: 4684997d9eea29380000e062755aa6d368d789a3 , < 5a045c2f0fbf029873d2295178fa0785ade35af0 (git)
Affected: 4684997d9eea29380000e062755aa6d368d789a3 , < 044fca8f45ba9ab6ca526163155234cf88287ff5 (git)
Affected: 4684997d9eea29380000e062755aa6d368d789a3 , < 0ca80328df23f851c86866720d4977783c919ee6 (git)
Affected: 4684997d9eea29380000e062755aa6d368d789a3 , < 538c51e9d124cf656f2dd0c0394a8545efc7102d (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.265 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.216 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.183 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.148 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.101 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.42 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.6 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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      "id": "CVE-2026-68192",
      "initial_release_date": "2026-08-12T16:22:56Z",
      "product_status:known_affected": "578",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "153",
      "product_status:recommended": "107",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2026-68192",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2026-68192.json",
      "version": "9"
    }
  }
}



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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

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