CVE-2026-23040

wifi: mac80211_hwsim: fix typo in frequency notification

published February 4, 2026

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00170 · 6.0th percentile
Published
2026-02-04T16:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 FEB 16:00Z
    wifi: mac80211_hwsim: fix typo in frequency notification
    cvelistv5