CVE-2026-98303 PUBLISHED

ipv4: icmp: reject RTN_UNREACHABLE input routes in icmp_route_lookup

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 06.10.2026 Updated: 06.10.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipv4: icmp: reject RTN_UNREACHABLE input routes in icmp_route_lookup

When the forward output route cannot be used in icmp_route_lookup(), it enters the "reverse path" and calls ip_route_input() on fl4_dec.daddr, the original packet's source address.

ip_route_input() only returns an error for truly invalid packets. For unreachable addresses it will succeed and return an input route whose dst.output is set to ip_rt_bug(). The existing check only rejects RTN_LOCAL routes, so the RTN_UNREACHABLE route types can still be returned and later used for output, syzkaller triggering a WARN_ON_ONCE() in ip_rt_bug() as bellow:

------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: net/ipv4/route.c:1273 at ip_rt_bug+0x14/0x20 RIP: 0010:ip_rt_bug+0x14/0x20 Call Trace: ip_push_pending_frames+0xfa/0x100 __icmp_send+0x905/0xf10 ip_options_compile+0xc0/0xd0 ip_rcv_finish_core+0x321/0xae0 ip_rcv+0x1de/0x260 __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x11a/0x130 netif_receive_skb+0x7b/0x260 tun_get_user+0x11bf/0x1c10 ------------[ cut here ]------------

Reject input route that is RTN_UNREACHABLE to fix it. The net warning is only printed for RTN_LOCAL, as RTN_UNREACHABLE is not the result of a race condition.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 8b7817f3a959ed99d7443afc12f78a7e1fcc2063 to 06083cea4a3b95f5ebc85312f97d7086e6c9e782 (excl.)
  • affected from 8b7817f3a959ed99d7443afc12f78a7e1fcc2063 to 83aa83f81a8fec30ff5372dee60b2f0561bcb2ca (excl.)
  • affected from 8b7817f3a959ed99d7443afc12f78a7e1fcc2063 to cac69c50716c712ef0114837c9427da66066124c (excl.)
  • affected from 8b7817f3a959ed99d7443afc12f78a7e1fcc2063 to 1af2d87964d87ba7626d96928d68c09158b5a223 (excl.)
  • affected from 8b7817f3a959ed99d7443afc12f78a7e1fcc2063 to fda3000147dc96c75ba162f680bec0a9fecf3037 (excl.)
  • affected from 8b7817f3a959ed99d7443afc12f78a7e1fcc2063 to 2998147b59c9df0a51477c7a6b3d1f0ba3127dd4 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 2.6.25 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 2.6.25 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.189 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.158 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.112 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.54 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.8 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc4 to * (incl.)

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