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    "id": "CVE-2026-97601",
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    "idYear": 2026,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2026-09-25T10:22:14.792Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-10-19T09:10:04.903Z",
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      "source": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"
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      "title": "ieee802154: 6lowpan: fix NULL dereference in lowpan_newlink",
      "summary": "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.",
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