CVE-2026-46166: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.12, before 6.12.88 (fixed in 6.12.88); from 6.13, before 6.18.30 (fixed in 6.18.30); from 6.19, before 7.0.7 (fixed in 7.0.7); version 7.1 only

Published 2026-05-28. Last modified 2026-07-15.