CVE-2026-43144 wifi: brcmfmac: Fix potential kernel oops when probe fails

What is CVE-2026-43144?

CVE-2026-43144 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 6 May 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: brcmfmac: Fix potential kernel oops when probe fails

When probe of the sdio brcmfmac device fails for some reasons (i.e. missing firmware), the sdiodev->bus is set to error instead of NULL, thus the cleanup later in brcmf_sdio_remove() tries to free resources via invalid bus pointer. This happens because sdiodev->bus is set 2 times: first in brcmf_sdio_probe() and second time in brcmf_sdiod_probe(). Fix this by chaning the brcmf_sdio_probe() function to return the error code and set sdio->bus only there.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-43144?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2026-43144?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2026-43144 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-43144 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2026-43144, DEBIAN-CVE-2026-43144, GHSA-xmh6-3rx4-qrfp, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-43144.