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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-64452" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-07-25T08:51:21.754Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:38:30.450Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z" 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-2026-64452" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64452.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64452" title: "6lowpan: fix NHC entry use-after-free on error path" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\n6lowpan: fix NHC entry use-after-free on error path\n\nlowpan_nhc_do_uncompression() looks up an NHC descriptor while holding\nlowpan_nhc_lock. If the descriptor has no uncompress callback, the error\npath drops the lock before printing nhc-\u003ename.\n\nlowpan_nhc_del() removes descriptors under the same lock and then relies\non synchronize_net() before the owning module can be unloaded. That only\nwaits for net RX RCU readers. lowpan_header_decompress() is also exported\nand can be reached from callers that are not necessarily covered by the net\ncore RX critical section, for example the Bluetooth 6LoWPAN L2CAP receive\npath.\n\nThis leaves a race where one task drops lowpan_nhc_lock in the error path,\nanother task unregisters and frees the matching descriptor after\nsynchronize_net() returns, and the first task then dereferences nhc-\u003ename\nfor the warning.\n\nWith the post-unlock window widened, KASAN reports:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in lowpan_nhc_do_uncompression+0x1f4/0x220\n Read of size 8\n lowpan_nhc_do_uncompression\n lowpan_header_decompress\n\nFix this by printing the warning before dropping lowpan_nhc_lock, so the\ndescriptor name is read while unregister is still excluded. The malformed\npacket is still rejected with -ENOTSUPP." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"92aa7c65d295f3cbb96904afe335f683e55584b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9c2f5c0829a8c8b904dae36be6d8056b719ac605"},{"version":"92aa7c65d295f3cbb96904afe335f683e55584b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"80b5c8779acee0550845394fb3e5176a398aa24c"},{"version":"92aa7c65d295f3cbb96904afe335f683e55584b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cc27aea4d454abfb385ee2c9499c78b96db9b728"},{"version":"92aa7c65d295f3cbb96904afe335f683e55584b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a8e3a94711134e898c6021a6b77374efa91b3639"},{"version":"92aa7c65d295f3cbb96904afe335f683e55584b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"593b78bb3c7ef0c6e9ae6fdf5afa80a5f7573168"},{"version":"92aa7c65d295f3cbb96904afe335f683e55584b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0beccbcf50de125be5520d0ffc59af4bb8655482"},{"version":"92aa7c65d295f3cbb96904afe335f683e55584b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b713aa0cc344f10f7a9928a230b5f5e780d04078"},{"version":"92aa7c65d295f3cbb96904afe335f683e55584b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1720db928e5a58ca7d75ac1d514c3b73fd7061a7"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.1"},{"version":"5.10.261","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.212","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.145","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.96","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.39","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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