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.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2002-08-31T04:00:00

Updated: 2016-10-17T13:57:01

Reserved: 2002-08-30T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2000-1213

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2000-10-18T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2016-10-18T02:09:18.947


Link: CVE-2000-1213

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