CVE-2026-53263

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

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jun 25, 2026
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Jun 9, 2026

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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.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 5609c185f24dffca5f6a9c127106869da150be03 to before f24a58c72a45f4c109f3557a760cc4b60b7a6037Affected
  • 5609c185f24dffca5f6a9c127106869da150be03 to before da8cbb64b47e9066b40af0de170901caf17b768cAffected
  • 5609c185f24dffca5f6a9c127106869da150be03 to before 4485d79617520d84ba5a14515e2b5136007d6debAffected
  • 5609c185f24dffca5f6a9c127106869da150be03 to before 06ce6fc106b16dec9b535950db626261be865e5bAffected
  • 5609c185f24dffca5f6a9c127106869da150be03 to before dcb1bec1c32ee5c3878354e087cf5dbee2b7c7afAffected
  • 5609c185f24dffca5f6a9c127106869da150be03 to before c32f30ef5e66adbfa102348e2e8a23776eb007cbAffected
  • 5609c185f24dffca5f6a9c127106869da150be03 to before da8808463882c3f3c357b072e25053c2121f1419Affected
  • 5609c185f24dffca5f6a9c127106869da150be03 to before 2a58899d11009bffc7b4b32a571858f381121837Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.6Affected
  • before 4.6Not affected
  • 5.10.259 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.210 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.176 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.143 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.94 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.36 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.0.13 through 7.0.*Not affected
  • 7.1 and laterNot affected

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