CVE-2026-46166
Modified
Modified - Updated After Analysis
Use-After-Free in Linux Kernel mac80211 Subsystem
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-46166, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-05-28
Last updated on: 2026-06-30
Assigner: kernel.org
Description
Description
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.
CVSS Scores
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Meta Information
Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.1 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.1 |
| linux | linux_kernel | From 6.13 (inc) to 6.18.30 (exc) |
| linux | linux_kernel | From 6.19 (inc) to 7.0.7 (exc) |
| linux | linux_kernel | From 6.12 (inc) to 6.12.88 (exc) |
Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-825 | The product dereferences a pointer that contains a location for memory that was previously valid, but is no longer valid. |
| CWE-416 | The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer. |
