Improper Restriction of Communication Channel to Intended Endpoints The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package linux-gcp-6.18 (opens in a new tab)

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Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-LINUXGCP618-14908965
published10 Jan 2026
disclosed1 Sept 2022

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Introduced: 1 Sep 2022

CVE-2022-2663 (opens in a new tab) CWE-923 (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Chainguard security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Chainguard:latest.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream linux-gcp-6.18 package and not the linux-gcp-6.18 package as distributed by Chainguard.

An issue was found in the Linux kernel in nf_conntrack_irc where the message handling can be confused and incorrectly matches the message. A firewall may be able to be bypassed when users are using unencrypted IRC with nf_conntrack_irc configured.