UBUNTU-CVE-2026-64452

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 descriptor while holding lowpannhclock. If the descriptor has no uncompress callback, the error path drops the lock before printing...

CVE-2026-64452

CVE-2026-64452 (Linux kernel 6LoWPAN) involves a race condition in 6LoWPAN’s Next Header Compression (NHC) handling that can cause a use-after-free in lowpan_nhc_do_uncompression when an NHC descriptor is freed while another path accesses nhc->name in an error path. The issue arises from holdi...

CVE-2026-64452 6lowpan: fix NHC entry use-after-free on error path

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 descriptor while holding lowpannhclock. If the descriptor has no uncompress callback, the error path drops the lock before printing...