Riskcovery

CVE-2026-23040

wifi: mac80211_hwsim: fix typo in frequency notification

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Feb 4, 2026
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Jan 13, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mac80211_hwsim: fix typo in frequency notification

The NAN notification is for 5745 MHz which corresponds to channel 149 and not 5475 which is not actually a valid channel. This could result in a NULL pointer dereference in cfg80211_next_nan_dw_notif.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • a37a6f54439bf82b827a7072415d3a4afa4e12bd to before 1251bbdb8f5b2ea86ca9b4268a2e6aa34372ab33Affected
  • a37a6f54439bf82b827a7072415d3a4afa4e12bd to before 333418872bfecf4843f1ded7a4151685dfcf07d5Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.18Affected
  • before 6.18Not affected
  • 6.18.6 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19 and laterNot affected

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