Bug 2546531 (CVE-2026-98303) - CVE-2026-98303 kernel: ipv4: icmp: reject RTN_UNREACHABLE input routes in icmp_route_lookup
Summary: CVE-2026-98303 kernel: ipv4: icmp: reject RTN_UNREACHABLE input routes in icm...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98303
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-10-06 09:39 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-09 07:31 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-06 09:39:47 UTC
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.


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