# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68192"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:00:10.041Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:58:56.511Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-68192"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68192.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68192"
title: "wifi: brcmfmac: make release_scratchbuffers idempotent"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: brcmfmac: make release_scratchbuffers idempotent\n\nbrcmf_pcie_release_scratchbuffers() frees the shared.scratch and\nshared.ringupd DMA buffers with dma_free_coherent() but does not clear\nthe pointers afterwards, unlike the sibling release_ringbuffers() which\nNULLs commonrings/flowrings/idxbuf on release.\n\nBoth the bus_reset .reset callback (brcmf_pcie_reset) and\nbrcmf_pcie_remove() call release_scratchbuffers.  When reset teardown\nhas run before removal, remove's own teardown would call\ndma_free_coherent() a second time on the already-freed DMA allocation.\n\nNULL the pointers after free, matching release_ringbuffers(), so a later\nrelease observes that the allocation has already been released.  This\npatch makes repeated sequential release safe; the reset-work lifetime is\nhandled separately by the following patch.\n\nThis issue was found by an in-house static analysis tool."
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