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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-53263

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 6/25/2026 5:16:44 AM

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Added 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.
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06ce6fc106b16dec9b535950db626261be865e5b
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a58899d11009bffc7b4b32a571858f381121837
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4485d79617520d84ba5a14515e2b5136007d6deb
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c32f30ef5e66adbfa102348e2e8a23776eb007cb
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da8808463882c3f3c357b072e25053c2121f1419
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da8cbb64b47e9066b40af0de170901caf17b768c
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dcb1bec1c32ee5c3878354e087cf5dbee2b7c7af
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f24a58c72a45f4c109f3557a760cc4b60b7a6037
Added Affected

                  
                
              
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