In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: brcmfmac: Fix error pointer dereference
The function brcmfchipadd_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 brcmfchiprecognition() error: 'core' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/chip.c:1013 brcmfchiprecognition() error: 'core' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/chip.c:1016 brcmfchiprecognition() error: 'core' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/chip.c:1019 brcmfchiprecognition() error: 'core' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/chip.c:1022 brcmfchiprecognition() error: 'core' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()
[add missing wifi: prefix]
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"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/53xxx/CVE-2026-53093.json",
"cna_assigner": "Linux"
}