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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-23396" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-03-26T10:22:49.287Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:14:46.530Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23396" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23396.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23396" title: "wifi: mac80211: fix NULL deref in mesh_matches_local()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mac80211: fix NULL deref in mesh_matches_local()\n\nmesh_matches_local() unconditionally dereferences ie-\u003emesh_config to\ncompare mesh configuration parameters. When called from\nmesh_rx_csa_frame(), the parsed action-frame elements may not contain a\nMesh Configuration IE, leaving ie-\u003emesh_config NULL and triggering a\nkernel NULL pointer dereference.\n\nThe other two callers are already safe:\n - ieee80211_mesh_rx_bcn_presp() checks !elems-\u003emesh_config before\n calling mesh_matches_local()\n - mesh_plink_get_event() is only reached through\n mesh_process_plink_frame(), which checks !elems-\u003emesh_config, too\n\nmesh_rx_csa_frame() is the only caller that passes raw parsed elements\nto mesh_matches_local() without guarding mesh_config. An adjacent\nattacker can exploit this by sending a crafted CSA action frame that\nincludes a valid Mesh ID IE but omits the Mesh Configuration IE,\ncrashing the kernel.\n\nThe captured crash log:\n\nOops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address ...\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]\nWorkqueue: events_unbound cfg80211_wiphy_work\n[...]\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ? __pfx_mesh_matches_local (net/mac80211/mesh.c:65)\n ieee80211_mesh_rx_queued_mgmt (net/mac80211/mesh.c:1686)\n [...]\n ieee80211_iface_work (net/mac80211/iface.c:1754 net/mac80211/iface.c:1802)\n [...]\n cfg80211_wiphy_work (net/wireless/core.c:426)\n process_one_work (net/kernel/workqueue.c:3280)\n ? assign_work (net/kernel/workqueue.c:1219)\n worker_thread (net/kernel/workqueue.c:3352)\n ? __pfx_worker_thread (net/kernel/workqueue.c:3385)\n kthread (net/kernel/kthread.c:436)\n [...]\n ret_from_fork_asm (net/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:255)\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nThis patch adds a NULL check for ie-\u003emesh_config at the top of\nmesh_matches_local() to return false early when the Mesh Configuration\nIE is absent." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2e3c8736820bf72a8ad10721c7e31d36d4fa7790","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"14a4fd13657a3f2489db6566f081adfb27a49c64"},{"version":"2e3c8736820bf72a8ad10721c7e31d36d4fa7790","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"74de6fa472b03bc8cde0a081484e9960bcbda568"},{"version":"2e3c8736820bf72a8ad10721c7e31d36d4fa7790","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c1e3f2416fb27c816ce96d747d3e784e31f4d95c"},{"version":"2e3c8736820bf72a8ad10721c7e31d36d4fa7790","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0a4da176ae4b4e075a19c00d3e269cfd5e05a813"},{"version":"2e3c8736820bf72a8ad10721c7e31d36d4fa7790","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a90279e7f7ea0b7e923a1c5ebee9a6b78b6d1004"},{"version":"2e3c8736820bf72a8ad10721c7e31d36d4fa7790","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"44699c6cdfce80a0f296b54ae9314461e3e41b3d"},{"version":"2e3c8736820bf72a8ad10721c7e31d36d4fa7790","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7c55a3deaf7eaaafa2546f8de7fed19382a0a116"},{"version":"2e3c8736820bf72a8ad10721c7e31d36d4fa7790","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c73bb9a2d33bf81f6eecaa0f474b6c6dbe9855bd"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.26","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.26"},{"version":"5.10.253","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.203","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.167","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.130","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.78","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.20","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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