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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-39863" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-09-19T15:26:33.069Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:08:30.419Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39863" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39863.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39863" title: "wifi: brcmfmac: fix use-after-free when rescheduling brcmf_btcoex_info work" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: brcmfmac: fix use-after-free when rescheduling brcmf_btcoex_info work\n\nThe brcmf_btcoex_detach() only shuts down the btcoex timer, if the\nflag timer_on is false. However, the brcmf_btcoex_timerfunc(), which\nruns as timer handler, sets timer_on to false. This creates critical\nrace conditions:\n\n1.If brcmf_btcoex_detach() is called while brcmf_btcoex_timerfunc()\nis executing, it may observe timer_on as false and skip the call to\ntimer_shutdown_sync().\n\n2.The brcmf_btcoex_timerfunc() may then reschedule the brcmf_btcoex_info\nworker after the cancel_work_sync() has been executed, resulting in\nuse-after-free bugs.\n\nThe use-after-free bugs occur in two distinct scenarios, depending on\nthe timing of when the brcmf_btcoex_info struct is freed relative to\nthe execution of its worker thread.\n\nScenario 1: Freed before the worker is scheduled\n\nThe brcmf_btcoex_info is deallocated before the worker is scheduled.\nA race condition can occur when schedule_work(&bt_local-\u003ework) is\ncalled after the target memory has been freed. The sequence of events\nis detailed below:\n\nCPU0 | CPU1\nbrcmf_btcoex_detach | brcmf_btcoex_timerfunc\n | bt_local-\u003etimer_on = false;\n if (cfg-\u003ebtcoex-\u003etimer_on) |\n ... |\n cancel_work_sync(); |\n ... |\n kfree(cfg-\u003ebtcoex); // FREE |\n | schedule_work(&bt_local-\u003ework); // USE\n\nScenario 2: Freed after the worker is scheduled\n\nThe brcmf_btcoex_info is freed after the worker has been scheduled\nbut before or during its execution. In this case, statements within\nthe brcmf_btcoex_handler() — such as the container_of macro and\nsubsequent dereferences of the brcmf_btcoex_info object will cause\na use-after-free access. The following timeline illustrates this\nscenario:\n\nCPU0 | CPU1\nbrcmf_btcoex_detach | brcmf_btcoex_timerfunc\n | bt_local-\u003etimer_on = false;\n if (cfg-\u003ebtcoex-\u003etimer_on) |\n ... |\n cancel_work_sync(); |\n ... | schedule_work(); // Reschedule\n |\n kfree(cfg-\u003ebtcoex); // FREE | brcmf_btcoex_handler() // Worker\n /* | btci = container_of(....); // USE\n The kfree() above could | ...\n also occur at any point | btci-\u003e // USE\n during the worker's execution|\n */ |\n\nTo resolve the race conditions, drop the conditional check and call\ntimer_shutdown_sync() directly. It can deactivate the timer reliably,\nregardless of its current state. Once stopped, the timer_on state is\nthen set to false." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"61730d4dfffc2cc9d3a49fad87633008105c18ba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c75600e69e66a751cc046cd9c407b942f298d852"},{"version":"61730d4dfffc2cc9d3a49fad87633008105c18ba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ae58f70bde0433f27ef4b388ab50634736607bf6"},{"version":"61730d4dfffc2cc9d3a49fad87633008105c18ba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f1150153c4e5940fe49ab51136343c5b4fe49d63"},{"version":"61730d4dfffc2cc9d3a49fad87633008105c18ba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3e789f8475f6c857c88de5c5bf4b24b11a477dd7"},{"version":"61730d4dfffc2cc9d3a49fad87633008105c18ba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2f6fbc8e04ca1d1d5c560be694199f847229c625"},{"version":"61730d4dfffc2cc9d3a49fad87633008105c18ba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9cb83d4be0b9b697eae93d321e0da999f9cdfcfc"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.10"},{"version":"5.15.210","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.167","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.105","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.46","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.16.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.16.*"},{"version":"6.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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