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CVE-2026-53263

Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: 6lowpan: fix off-by-one in multicast context address compression The second memcpy in lowpan_iphc_mcast_ctx_addr_compress() uses &data[1] as destination and &ipaddr->s6_addr[11] as source, but both should be offset by one: &data[2] and &ipaddr->s6_addr[12] respectively. This off-by-one has two consequences: 1. data[1] is overwritten with s6_addr[11], corrupting the RIID field in the compressed multicast address 2. data[5] is never written, so uninitialized kernel stack memory is transmitted over the network via lowpan_push_hc_data(), leaking kernel stack contents The correct inline data layout must match what the decompression function lowpan_uncompress_multicast_ctx_daddr() expects: data[0..1] = s6_addr[1..2] (flags/scope + RIID) data[2..5] = s6_addr[12..15] (group ID) Also zero-initialize the data array as a defensive measure against similar bugs in the future.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-53263
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Linux
Reserved
2026-06-09 07:44 UTC
Published
2026-06-25 08:39 UTC
Last updated
2026-06-25 08:39 UTC
Vendor / Product
Linux / Linux
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

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Affected products (2)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
Linux Linux 5609c185f24dffca5f6a9c127106869da150be03 < f24a58c72a45f4c109f3557a760cc4b60b7a6037, 5609c185f24dffca5f6a9c127106869da150be03 < da8cbb64b47e9066b40af0de170901caf17b768c, 5609c185f24dffca5f6a9c127106869da150be03 < 4485d79617520d84ba5a14515e2b5136007d6deb, 5609c185f24dffca5f6a9c127106869da150be03 < 06ce6fc106b16dec9b535950db626261be865e5b …
Linux Linux 4.6, 0 < 4.6, 5.10.259 ≤ 5.10.*, 5.15.210 ≤ 5.15.* …
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