CVE-2026-53263 PUBLISHED

6lowpan: fix off-by-one in multicast context address compression

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 09.06.2026 Published: 25.06.2026 Updated: 25.06.2026

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.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 5609c185f24dffca5f6a9c127106869da150be03 to f24a58c72a45f4c109f3557a760cc4b60b7a6037 (excl.)
  • affected from 5609c185f24dffca5f6a9c127106869da150be03 to da8cbb64b47e9066b40af0de170901caf17b768c (excl.)
  • affected from 5609c185f24dffca5f6a9c127106869da150be03 to 4485d79617520d84ba5a14515e2b5136007d6deb (excl.)
  • affected from 5609c185f24dffca5f6a9c127106869da150be03 to 06ce6fc106b16dec9b535950db626261be865e5b (excl.)
  • affected from 5609c185f24dffca5f6a9c127106869da150be03 to dcb1bec1c32ee5c3878354e087cf5dbee2b7c7af (excl.)
  • affected from 5609c185f24dffca5f6a9c127106869da150be03 to c32f30ef5e66adbfa102348e2e8a23776eb007cb (excl.)
  • affected from 5609c185f24dffca5f6a9c127106869da150be03 to da8808463882c3f3c357b072e25053c2121f1419 (excl.)
  • affected from 5609c185f24dffca5f6a9c127106869da150be03 to 2a58899d11009bffc7b4b32a571858f381121837 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.6 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.6 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.259 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.210 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.176 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.143 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.94 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.36 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0.13 to 7.0.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1 to * (incl.)

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