[NVD] CVE-2026-46266 (CRITICAL 9.1) — 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 in

CVE-2026-46266 CVSS: 9.1 CRITICAL Published: 2026-06-03T18:16:28.147

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 2