Expired Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-firmware (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS6-KERNELFIRMWARE-17087167
- published29 May 2026
- disclosed28 May 2026
Introduced: 28 May 2026
CVE-2026-46166 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:6.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-firmware package and not the kernel-firmware package as distributed by Centos.
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.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-46166
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/120149fb3ebcf674832ca3cafd32bedcdb686dde
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7577a4b8a10fab45a6ee2045ea038a5adadbb585
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/887ece6c23b49d02a6678e7a8d5ad213d75883ce
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac8eb3e18f41e2cc8492cc1d358bcb786c850270
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:27288
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:27708
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:27789
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:33215
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2482645
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-46166.json