# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-46266"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-03T15:50:07.907Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:36:56.452Z"
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-2026-46266"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46266.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46266"
title: "inet: RAW sockets using IPPROTO_RAW MUST drop incoming ICMP"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ninet: RAW sockets using IPPROTO_RAW MUST drop incoming ICMP\n\nYizhou Zhao reported that simply having one RAW socket on protocol\nIPPROTO_RAW (255) was dangerous.\n\n  socket(AF_INET, SOCK_RAW, 255);\n\nA malicious incoming ICMP packet can set the protocol field to 255\nand match this socket, leading to FNHE cache changes.\n\ninner = IP(src=\"192.168.2.1\", dst=\"8.8.8.8\", proto=255)/Raw(\"TEST\")\npkt = IP(src=\"192.168.1.1\", dst=\"192.168.2.1\")/ICMP(type=3, code=4, nexthopmtu=576)/inner\n\n\"man 7 raw\" states:\n\n  A protocol of IPPROTO_RAW implies enabled IP_HDRINCL and is able\n  to send any IP protocol that is specified in the passed header.\n  Receiving of all IP protocols via IPPROTO_RAW is not possible\n  using raw sockets.\n\nMake sure we drop these malicious packets."
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