# 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-2026-98196"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:44:35.616Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:15:27.411Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-98196"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98196.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98196"
title: "wifi: brcmsmac: fix UAF in brcms_free_timer()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: brcmsmac: fix UAF in brcms_free_timer()\n\nbrcms_free_timer() calls brcms_del_timer() which uses the non-synchronous\ncancel_delayed_work() to cancel the timer's underlying delayed work.  If\nthe work callback (_brcms_timer) is already running, cancel_delayed_work()\nreturns false without waiting, and brcms_free_timer() proceeds to kfree(t)\nwhile the callback still accesses t through container_of().\n\nAdd an explicit cancel_delayed_work_sync() after brcms_del_timer() to\nguarantee that any in-flight callback has completed before the timer\nstructure is freed."
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