odhcpd is the DHCPv6, DHCPv4, and router-advertisement server used by OpenWrt. In versions 25.12 and prior, odhcpd's DHCPv6 self-loop detection at dhcpv6.c:720 uses a network-byte-order DUID length value directly as the memcmp() size parameter. On little-endian hosts, this causes memcmp() to read far beyond the stack buffer — a single unauthenticated DHCPv6 packet triggers a 2560-byte overread from a 128-byte buffer. At time of publication, there are no publicly available patches.
https://github.com/tc4dy/CVE-2026-53921-PoC-Exploit
https://github.com/openwrt/odhcpd/security/advisories/GHSA-x8x4-7gvf-gp45
https://github.com/openwrt/odhcpd/pull/401
https://github.com/openwrt/odhcpd/commit/ed38cffa927d5fd450d20bfd3f7fb8d8e8fff301
https://github.com/openwrt/odhcpd/commit/6907f28f9ddeef9f69f5ee10bbc9ba8adc0ef57f