mac80211

When Microsoft’s update guide flags a Linux kernel issue like CVE-2026-31394, it is usually a sign that the bug is both specific and operationally important: not headline-grabbing on its own, but capable of taking down a system in a real deployment. This one sits in mac80211, the Linux wireless...

In the Linux kernel’s Wi-Fi stack, CVE-2026-23367 is a small-looking bug with an important lesson: even parser code that merely rejects malformed input can still trip over uninitialized state and crash-prone logic. The flaw lives in the radiotap iterator used by mac80211 and related networking...