CVE-2000-1213

Description

From CVE.org

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.

Statement

This issue was fixed in the following products:

  • Red Hat Linux 6.2 - RHSA-2000:087 (2000-10-18)
  • Red Hat Linux 7.0 - RHSA-2000:087 (2000-10-18)
  • Red Hat Linux 7.0j - RHSA-2000:087 (2000-10-18)

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