{"id":"CVE-2026-97601","published":"2026-09-25T11:17:11.463","lastModified":"2026-09-25T11:17:11.463","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nieee802154: 6lowpan: fix NULL dereference in lowpan_newlink\n\nTUNSETLINK allows a TUN device to change its link-layer type to\nARPHRD_IEEE802154 without initializing ieee802154_ptr. lowpan_newlink()\nchecks only the device type before dereferencing the pointer, so an\nRTM_NEWLINK request can trigger a NULL pointer dereference.\n\nReject devices without ieee802154_ptr along with devices of the wrong type.","cvssScore":null,"cvssSeverity":null,"cvssVector":null,"cwes":[],"vendors":[],"products":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c7710af7ad9532b534f1c134c11b04dbe4e0e0f","tags":[]},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8528da2333ce05cf627f93425f9d05efb08b3146","tags":[]},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98ce5a42cde780ee0e40378607d4428c8fc12ec1","tags":[]},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf79662bc85e820ac3b846e2f347da29fbf6ac95","tags":[]}],"exploitRefs":[],"hasPoc":false,"ai":null}