New Cfosspeed Beta and new ping method

i saw the new beta of cfosspeed and at the chang log this changing has been written: "cFosSpeed 3.23 build 1270

* cFosSpeed now has support to send ping messages from both usermore and
kernelmode, named "hybrid ping". This should hopefully help with some
firewalls that are difficult to configure or have problems with spd.exe
sending ICMP messages. cFosSpeed will switch between usermode and kernel-
mode ping at the beginning of a connection to ensure pings are coming
through.
"
is this ping sending method a security issue for firewalls? and may any malware use this method for icmp or other protocol?

 

It would depend on the firewalls level of network driver installation. A number of firewalls should intercept this.