CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-53263
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-06-25
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-193
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.6 < 5.10.259)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.210)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.176)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.143)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.94)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.36)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.13)
• linux linux kernel 7.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-193 Off-by-one Error weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06ce6fc106b16dec9b535950db626261be865e5b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a58899d11009bffc7b4b32a571858f381121837 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4485d79617520d84ba5a14515e2b5136007d6deb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c32f30ef5e66adbfa102348e2e8a23776eb007cb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da8808463882c3f3c357b072e25053c2121f1419 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da8cbb64b47e9066b40af0de170901caf17b768c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dcb1bec1c32ee5c3878354e087cf5dbee2b7c7af Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f24a58c72a45f4c109f3557a760cc4b60b7a6037 Patch
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-784472.html cert-portal.siemens.com