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.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19e42490c89bac9a388f28179e66bebbef350f99 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/531c1aec81bfe19d00af13da5531fbb8209e4bd2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/719d3932b8f6e3348ce2f0ac58e278301fc17575 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c89477ad79446867394360b29bb801010fc3ff22 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db76b75ede3810e7cf9cfea5067d4f3e0993768b Patch
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 2
- CwesCWE-20NVD modified 2026-10-19 20:18
- First seenCVSS 9.1 · linuxNVD modified 2026-10-16 16:18
Affected (CPE criteria) 6
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.12:-:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.12:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.12:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.12:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.12:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19e42490c89bac9a388f28179e66bebbef350f99 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47276297140ee6712646f9b19fb04fe26daedd01
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/531c1aec81bfe19d00af13da5531fbb8209e4bd2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/719d3932b8f6e3348ce2f0ac58e278301fc17575 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c89477ad79446867394360b29bb801010fc3ff22 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db76b75ede3810e7cf9cfea5067d4f3e0993768b Patch