High

pppoe: drop PFC frames

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pppoe: drop PFC frames RFC 2516 Section 7 states that Protocol Field Compression (PFC) is NOT RECOMMENDED for PPPoE. In practice, pppd does not support negotiating PFC for PPPoE sessions, and the current PPPoE driver assumes an uncompressed (2-byte) protocol field. However, the generic PPP layer function ppp_input() is not aware of the negotiation result, and still accepts PFC frames. If a peer with a broken implementation or an attacker sends a frame with a compressed (1-byte) protocol field, the subsequent PPP payload is shifted by one byte. This causes the network header to be 4-byte misaligned, which may trigger unaligned access exceptions on some architectures. To reduce the attack surface, drop PPPoE PFC frames. Introduce ppp_skb_is_compressed_proto() helper function to be used in both ppp_generic.c and pppoe.c to avoid open-coding.

Announced 24 Jun 2026Group revision 1

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CVE-2026-53003

Primary source · Revision 1

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Security context

Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-53003

Linux

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Linux

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Related CVEs: CVE-2026-53003
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Publisher severity

high

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Event: #40731 · Revision 1
Added to Heist Feed: Sun, 25 Oct 2026 11:08:22 GMT
Publisher date: Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:29:15 GMT

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25 Oct 2026CVE-2026-53003 · Revision 1Source updated