CVE-2026-97601

Name	CVE-2026-97601
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-4817-1, DSA-6528-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	bookworm	6.1.176-1	vulnerable
	bookworm (security)	6.1.187-1	vulnerable
	trixie	6.12.107-1	vulnerable
	trixie (security)	6.12.111-1	fixed
	forky	7.2.9-1	fixed
	sid	7.2.10-1	fixed
linux-6.12 (PTS)	bookworm (security)	6.12.111-1~deb12u1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
linux	source	trixie	6.12.111-1	DSA-6528-1
linux	source	(unstable)	7.2.7-1
linux-6.12	source	bookworm	6.12.111-1~deb12u1	DLA-4817-1

https://git.kernel.org/linus/bf79662bc85e820ac3b846e2f347da29fbf6ac95 (7.3-rc3)