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CVE-2026-46266

inet: RAW sockets using IPPROTO_RAW MUST drop incoming ICMP PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: inet: RAW sockets using IPPROTO_RAW MUST drop incoming ICMP Yizhou Zhao reported that simply having one RAW socket on protocol IPPROTO_RAW (255) was dangerous. socket(AF_INET, SOCK_RAW, 255); A malicious incoming ICMP packet can set the protocol field to 255 and match this socket, leading to FNHE cache changes. inner = IP(src="192.168.2.1", dst="8.8.8.8", proto=255)/Raw("TEST") pkt = IP(src="192.168.1.1", dst="192.168.2.1")/ICMP(type=3, code=4, nexthopmtu=576)/inner "man 7 raw" states: A protocol of IPPROTO_RAW implies enabled IP_HDRINCL and is able to send any IP protocol that is specified in the passed header. Receiving of all IP protocols via IPPROTO_RAW is not possible using raw sockets. Make sure we drop these malicious packets.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 47276297140ee6712646f9b19fb04fe26daedd01; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before db76b75ede3810e7cf9cfea5067d4f3e0993768b; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 19e42490c89bac9a388f28179e66bebbef350f99; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 531c1aec81bfe19d00af13da5531fbb8209e4bd2; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 719d3932b8f6e3348ce2f0ac58e278301fc17575; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before c89477ad79446867394360b29bb801010fc3ff22
Linux / Linuxaffected 2.6.12; unaffected 0 before 2.6.12; unaffected 6.1.187 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.128 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.75 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.14 through 6.18.*; unaffected 6.19.4 through 6.19.*; unaffected 7.0 through *

CWE

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