CVE-2000-1213 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-10/0429.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=97249980727834&w=2 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-087.html