CVE-2026-53263

Technical 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.

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References