NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-rt-64k-devel-matched  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELRT64KDEVELMATCHED-15597372
  • published15 Mar 2026
  • disclosed4 Feb 2026

Introduced: 4 Feb 2026

CVE-2026-23040  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-64k-devel-matched package and not the kernel-rt-64k-devel-matched 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.