First published: Wed Oct 18 2000(Updated: )
ping in iputils before 20001010, as distributed on Red Hat Linux 6.2 through 7J and other operating systems, does not drop privileges after acquiring a raw socket, which increases ping's exposure to bugs that otherwise would occur at lower privileges.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
---|---|---|
Iputils Iputils | <=2000-10-10 | |
Immunix Immunix | =6.2 | |
Redhat Linux | =7.0 | |
Redhat Linux | =6.2 | |
Redhat Linux | =6.2 | |
Redhat Linux | =6.2 |
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