# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-53003"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-24T16:29:15.268Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:47:13.280Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53003"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53003.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53003"
title: "pppoe: drop PFC frames"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npppoe: drop PFC frames\n\nRFC 2516 Section 7 states that Protocol Field Compression (PFC) is NOT\nRECOMMENDED for PPPoE. In practice, pppd does not support negotiating\nPFC for PPPoE sessions, and the current PPPoE driver assumes an\nuncompressed (2-byte) protocol field. However, the generic PPP layer\nfunction ppp_input() is not aware of the negotiation result, and still\naccepts PFC frames.\n\nIf a peer with a broken implementation or an attacker sends a frame with\na compressed (1-byte) protocol field, the subsequent PPP payload is\nshifted by one byte. This causes the network header to be 4-byte\nmisaligned, which may trigger unaligned access exceptions on some\narchitectures.\n\nTo reduce the attack surface, drop PPPoE PFC frames. Introduce\nppp_skb_is_compressed_proto() helper function to be used in both\nppp_generic.c and pppoe.c to avoid open-coding."
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