{"id":"AZL-104433","summary":"CVE-2026-97601 affecting package kernel 6.6.157.1-1","details":"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.","modified":"2026-09-28T05:39:54Z","published":"2026-09-25T11:17:11Z","upstream":["CVE-2026-97601"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-97601"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"kernel","ecosystem":"Azure Linux:3","purl":"pkg:rpm/azure-linux/kernel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"6.6.157.1-1"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-104433.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}