CVE-2026-46166 (GCVE-0-2026-46166)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-28 09:36 – Updated: 2026-05-28 09:36
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Title
wifi: mac80211: use safe list iteration in radar detect work
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: use safe list iteration in radar detect work The call to ieee80211_dfs_cac_cancel can cause the iterated chanctx to be freed and removed from the list. Guard against this to avoid a slab-use-after-free error.
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Linux Linux Affected: bca8bc0399ac2efd56e6adbed0307e10125a556c , < 887ece6c23b49d02a6678e7a8d5ad213d75883ce (git)
Affected: bca8bc0399ac2efd56e6adbed0307e10125a556c , < 7577a4b8a10fab45a6ee2045ea038a5adadbb585 (git)
Affected: bca8bc0399ac2efd56e6adbed0307e10125a556c , < 120149fb3ebcf674832ca3cafd32bedcdb686dde (git)
Affected: bca8bc0399ac2efd56e6adbed0307e10125a556c , < ac8eb3e18f41e2cc8492cc1d358bcb786c850270 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.88 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.30 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.7 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1-rc3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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