CVE-2026-97601

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's 6LoWPAN IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks networking subsystem, which can lead to a Denial of Service DoS. When a network device changes its link type without properly initializing internal data pointers, the kernel fails to validate the...

CVE-2026-18415

ieee802154send in subsys/net/l2/ieee802154/ieee802154.c copies the outgoing packet into a single fixed 125-byte transmit buffer txframebufpool, sized IEEE802154MTU. In builds with CONFIGNETL2IEEE802154FRAGMENT enabled the default whenever CONFIGNET6LO is set, the branch taken when 6LoWPAN...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-97601

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ieee802154: 6lowpan: fix NULL dereference in lowpannewlink TUNSETLINK allows a TUN device to change its link-layer type to ARPHRDIEEE802154 without initializing ieee802154ptr. lowpannewlink checks only the device type before...

AZL-104433 CVE-2026-97601 affecting package kernel 6.6.157.1-1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ieee802154: 6lowpan: fix NULL dereference in lowpannewlink TUNSETLINK allows a TUN device to change its link-layer type to ARPHRDIEEE802154 without initializing ieee802154ptr. lowpannewlink checks only the device type before...

CVE-2026-97601 ieee802154: 6lowpan: fix NULL dereference in lowpan_newlink

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ieee802154: 6lowpan: fix NULL dereference in lowpannewlink TUNSETLINK allows a TUN device to change its link-layer type to ARPHRDIEEE802154 without initializing ieee802154ptr. lowpannewlink checks only the device type before...

CVE-2026-97601

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ieee802154: 6lowpan: fix NULL dereference in lowpannewlink TUNSETLINK allows a TUN device to change its link-layer type to ARPHRDIEEE802154 without initializing ieee802154ptr. lowpannewlink checks only the device type before...

EUVD-2026-86732

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ieee802154: 6lowpan: fix NULL dereference in lowpannewlink TUNSETLINK allows a TUN device to change its link-layer type to ARPHRDIEEE802154 without initializing ieee802154ptr. lowpannewlink checks only the device type before...

CVE-2026-97601

The Linux kernel contains a vulnerability in the ieee802154: 6lowpan component where a NULL pointer dereference can occur in the lowpan_newlink() function. This issue is triggered when an RTM_NEWLINK request allows a TUN device to change its link-layer type to ARPHRD_IEEE802154 via TUNSETLINK wit...

CVE-2026-97601

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ieee802154: 6lowpan: fix NULL dereference in lowpannewlink TUNSETLINK allows a TUN device to change its link-layer type to ARPHRDIEEE802154 without initializing ieee802154ptr. lowpannewlink checks only the device type before...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-97601

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ieee802154: 6lowpan: fix NULL dereference in lowpannewlink TUNSETLINK allows a TUN device to change its link-layer type to ARPHRDIEEE802154 without initializing ieee802154ptr. lowpannewlink checks only the device type before...

The vulnerability of the lowpan_xmit() function in the net/ieee802154/6lowpan/tx.c module of the Linux kernel allows a hacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of the protected information.

The vulnerability of the lowpanxmit function in the net/ieee802154/6lowpan/tx.c module of the Linux kernel lies in the access to an uninitialized pointer. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of the protected...

The vulnerability of the `lowpan_iphc_mcast_ctx_addr_compress()` function in the `net/6lowpan/iphc.c` module, which is part of the networking functions in the Linux kernel, allows a hacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the lowpaniphcmcastctxaddrcompress function in the net/6lowpan/iphc.c module of the Linux kernel’s networking functions is related to a single-shift error. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a system failure...

SUSE CVE-2026-72336

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: 6lowpan: hold L2CAP conn across debugfs control getl2capconn looks up an LE hciconn under hdev protection, but then drops that protection before reading hcon-l2capdata and before lowpancontrolwrite later dereferences...

Unity Linux 20.1050a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-098915)

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-098915 advisory. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: 6lowpan: fix NHC entry use-after-free on error path lowpannhcdouncompression looks up an NHC...

Unity Linux 20.1050e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-102033)

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-102033 advisory. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: 6lowpan: fix NHC entry use-after-free on error path lowpannhcdouncompression looks up an NHC...

CVE-2026-12633

The IPv6 neighbor-discovery code in subsys/net/ip/ipv6nbr.c processes the 6LoWPAN Context Option 6CO, RFC 6775 carried inside ICMPv6 Router Advertisements. In handlera6co the 8-bit contextlen field is taken directly from the packet and was never bounded to the RFC maximum of 128. The function...

EUVD-2026-63074

The IPv6 neighbor-discovery code in subsys/net/ip/ipv6nbr.c processes the 6LoWPAN Context Option 6CO, RFC 6775 carried inside ICMPv6 Router Advertisements. In handlera6co the 8-bit contextlen field is taken directly from the packet and was never bounded to the RFC maximum of 128. The function...

CVE-2026-12633 Out-of-bounds write in IPv6 6LoWPAN Context Option handling via unauthenticated Router Advertisement

The IPv6 neighbor-discovery code in subsys/net/ip/ipv6nbr.c processes the 6LoWPAN Context Option 6CO, RFC 6775 carried inside ICMPv6 Router Advertisements. In handlera6co the 8-bit contextlen field is taken directly from the packet and was never bounded to the RFC maximum of 128. The function...

CVE-2026-12633 Out-of-bounds write in IPv6 6LoWPAN Context Option handling via unauthenticated Router Advertisement

The IPv6 neighbor-discovery code in subsys/net/ip/ipv6nbr.c processes the 6LoWPAN Context Option 6CO, RFC 6775 carried inside ICMPv6 Router Advertisements. In handlera6co the 8-bit contextlen field is taken directly from the packet and was never bounded to the RFC maximum of 128. The function...

CVE-2026-12633 Out-of-bounds write in IPv6 6LoWPAN Context Option handling via unauthenticated Router Advertisement

The IPv6 neighbor-discovery code in subsys/net/ip/ipv6nbr.c processes the 6LoWPAN Context Option 6CO, RFC 6775 carried inside ICMPv6 Router Advertisements. In handlera6co the 8-bit contextlen field is taken directly from the packet and was never bounded to the RFC maximum of 128. The function...