Vulnerability in Immunix
CVE-2000-1213
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.
EPSS: 0.019 (78.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Immunix — versions 6.2
- Iputils
- Redhat Linux — versions 6.2, 7.0
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)