# 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-2026-80949"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:42:19.707Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:45:33.207Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-80949"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80949.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80949"
title: "wifi: brcmfmac: Fix memory leak in brcmf_sdio_read_control()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: brcmfmac: Fix memory leak in brcmf_sdio_read_control()\n\nThe memory allocated for buf is not freed in some of the error paths in\nbrcmf_sdio_read_control(). Fix that by adding vfree() calls.\n\n[arend: rework as suggested by Johannes]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"dd43a01c5cdb811adeb09e6a2d2788f8aa0d0969","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b1d0a90a844abccdfed9fe141b5d0d654a821485"},{"version":"dd43a01c5cdb811adeb09e6a2d2788f8aa0d0969","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"86b57fa3172e287bc083113507a965e6d9a46a45"},{"version":"dd43a01c5cdb811adeb09e6a2d2788f8aa0d0969","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a732c4f36a4cd79f3702391f88ebb56f2e43b0ee"},{"version":"dd43a01c5cdb811adeb09e6a2d2788f8aa0d0969","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7704f6ba2a8c492b07a3eaa1e311b4b30d389246"},{"version":"dd43a01c5cdb811adeb09e6a2d2788f8aa0d0969","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fdb880a7d575efe8b5c7b5b819b96d9251a3937f"},{"version":"dd43a01c5cdb811adeb09e6a2d2788f8aa0d0969","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"261d7c7610b4b2f476382c88a2d1ae0cc5e07add"},{"version":"dd43a01c5cdb811adeb09e6a2d2788f8aa0d0969","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ba04715ee672c336272be3ceb43bda9ffc33eb75"},{"version":"dd43a01c5cdb811adeb09e6a2d2788f8aa0d0969","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0d10db8e94fcb23a799789aaa696b4d8f937e207"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.8"},{"version":"5.10.270","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.221","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.109","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.50","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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