# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-63870"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T14:18:39.113Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:17:53.580Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-63870"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-63870.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63870"
title: "ieee802154: 6lowpan: only accept IPv6 packets in lowpan_xmit()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nieee802154: 6lowpan: only accept IPv6 packets in lowpan_xmit()\n\nThe aoe driver (or similar) generates a non-IPv6 packet\n(e.g., ETH_P_AOE) and queues it for transmission via dev_queue_xmit()\non a 6LoWPAN interface (configured by the user or test case).\n\nSince the packet is not IPv6, the 6LoWPAN header_ops-\u003ecreate function\n(lowpan_header_create or header_create) returns early without initializing\nthe lowpan_addr_info structure in the skb headroom.\n\nIn the transmit function (lowpan_xmit), the driver calls lowpan_header\n(or setup_header) which unconditionally copies and uses the lowpan_addr_info\nfrom the headroom, which contains uninitialized data.\n\nFix this by dropping non IPv6 packets.\n\nA similar fix is needed in net/bluetooth/6lowpan.c bt_xmit()."
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