{"cve":"CVE-2026-64452","nvd":{"published":"2026-07-25T10:17:30.140","modified":"2026-10-19T21:17:39.857","status":"Modified","description":"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->name.\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->name\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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":7.1},"cwes":["CWE-416"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0beccbcf50de125be5520d0ffc59af4bb8655482","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1720db928e5a58ca7d75ac1d514c3b73fd7061a7","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/593b78bb3c7ef0c6e9ae6fdf5afa80a5f7573168","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/80b5c8779acee0550845394fb3e5176a398aa24c","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c2f5c0829a8c8b904dae36be6d8056b719ac605"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-21T03:56:58.798400159+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-64452","score":0.0022,"percentile":0.12371,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}