Commit c89477ad authored Feb 03, 2026 by Eric Dumazet Committed by Jakub Kicinski Feb 05, 2026

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.

Fixes: 1da177e4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reported-by: Yizhou Zhao <zhaoyz24@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20251109134600.292125-1-zhaoyz24@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn/


Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260203192509.682208-1-edumazet@google.com


Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

parent 6a65c0cb

net/ipv4/icmp.c

+10 −4

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1031,16 +1031,22 @@ static void icmp_socket_deliver(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 info)
		/* Checkin full IP header plus 8 bytes of protocol to
		* avoid additional coding at protocol handlers.
		*/
		if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, iph->ihl * 4 + 8)) {
		__ICMP_INC_STATS(dev_net_rcu(skb->dev), ICMP_MIB_INERRORS);
		return;
		}
		if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, iph->ihl * 4 + 8))
		goto out;

		/* IPPROTO_RAW sockets are not supposed to receive anything. */
		if (protocol == IPPROTO_RAW)
		goto out;

		raw_icmp_error(skb, protocol, info);

		ipprot = rcu_dereference(inet_protos[protocol]);
		if (ipprot && ipprot->err_handler)
		ipprot->err_handler(skb, info);
		return;

		out:
		__ICMP_INC_STATS(dev_net_rcu(skb->dev), ICMP_MIB_INERRORS);
		}

		static bool icmp_tag_validation(int proto)

net/ipv6/icmp.c

+6 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1066,6 +1066,12 @@ enum skb_drop_reason icmpv6_notify(struct sk_buff *skb, u8 type,
		if (reason != SKB_NOT_DROPPED_YET)
		goto out;

		if (nexthdr == IPPROTO_RAW) {
		/* Add a more specific reason later ? */
		reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_NOT_SPECIFIED;
		goto out;
		}

		/* BUGGG_FUTURE: we should try to parse exthdrs in this packet.
		Without this we will not able f.e. to make source routed
		pmtu discovery.