Expired Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package perf  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-PERF-17087172
  • published29 May 2026
  • disclosed28 May 2026

Introduced: 28 May 2026

CVE-2026-46166  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-825  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:6.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perf package and not the perf package as distributed by RHEL.

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.