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.
2000-10-18T04:00:00.000
2025-04-03T01:03:51.193
Deferred
CVSSv2: 7.5 (HIGH)
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
10.0
6.4
Type | Vendor | Product | Version/Range | Vulnerable? |
---|---|---|---|---|
Application | immunix | immunix | 6.2 | Yes |
Application | iputils | iputils | ≤ 2000-10-10 | Yes |
Operating System | redhat | linux | 6.2 | Yes |
Operating System | redhat | linux | 6.2 | Yes |
Operating System | redhat | linux | 6.2 | Yes |
Operating System | redhat | linux | 7.0 | Yes |