# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-53093"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-24T16:30:32.053Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-24T16:30:32.053Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-53093"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53093.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53093"
title: "wifi: brcmfmac: Fix error pointer dereference"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: brcmfmac: Fix error pointer dereference\n\nThe function brcmf_chip_add_core() can return an error pointer and is\nnot checked. Add checks for error pointer.\n\nDetected by Smatch:\ndrivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/chip.c:1010 brcmf_chip_recognition() error:\n'core' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()\n\ndrivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/chip.c:1013 brcmf_chip_recognition() error:\n'core' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()\n\ndrivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/chip.c:1016 brcmf_chip_recognition() error:\n'core' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()\n\ndrivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/chip.c:1019 brcmf_chip_recognition() error:\n'core' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()\n\ndrivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/chip.c:1022 brcmf_chip_recognition() error:\n'core' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()\n\n[add missing wifi: prefix]"
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