# 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-2026-68403"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:04:23.150Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:34:54.805Z"
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-2026-68403"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68403.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68403"
title: "wifi: brcmfmac: initialize SDIO data work before cleanup"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: brcmfmac: initialize SDIO data work before cleanup\n\nbrcmf_sdio_probe() stores the newly allocated bus in sdiodev-\u003ebus before\nallocating the ordered workqueue. If that allocation fails, the function\njumps to fail and calls brcmf_sdio_remove().\n\nbrcmf_sdio_remove() unconditionally cancels bus-\u003edatawork. Initialize the\nwork item before the first failure path that can reach brcmf_sdio_remove(),\nso the cleanup path always observes a valid work object.\n\nThis issue was found by our static analysis tool and then confirmed by\nmanual review of the probe error path and the remove-time work drain. The\nproblem pattern is an early setup failure that reaches a cleanup helper\nwhich cancels an embedded work item before its initializer has run.\n\nA QEMU PoC forced alloc_ordered_workqueue() to fail at the same point in\nbrcmf_sdio_probe(), before INIT_WORK(&bus-\u003edatawork) is reached. The\nresulting fail path calls brcmf_sdio_remove(), and DEBUG_OBJECTS reports\nthe invalid work drain with brcmf_sdio_probe() and brcmf_sdio_remove() in\nthe stack."
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