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CVE-2026-97601
medium
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ieee802154: 6lowpan: fix NULL dereference in lowpan_newlink TUNSETLINK allows a TUN device to change its link-layer type to ARPHRD_IEEE802154 without initializing ieee802154_ptr. lowpan_newlink() checks only the device type before dereferencing the pointer, so an RTM_NEWLINK request can trigger a NULL pointer dereference. Reject devices without ieee802154_ptr along with devices of the wrong type.
References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf79662bc85e820ac3b846e2f347da29fbf6ac95
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98ce5a42cde780ee0e40378607d4428c8fc12ec1
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8528da2333ce05cf627f93425f9d05efb08b3146
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c7710af7ad9532b534f1c134c11b04dbe4e0e0f