NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-doc (opens in a new tab)
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Start learning- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-KERNELDOC-15215892
- published5 Feb 2026
- disclosed4 Feb 2026
Introduced: 4 Feb 2026
CVE-2026-23040 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-doc package and not the kernel-doc package as distributed by RHEL.
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.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2436806
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-23040
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18134
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1251bbdb8f5b2ea86ca9b4268a2e6aa34372ab33
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/333418872bfecf4843f1ded7a4151685dfcf07d5