Vulnerabilities > CVE-2000-1213

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
immunix
iputils
redhat

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Immunix
1
Application
Iputils
1
OS
Redhat
4

Redhat

advisories
rhsa
idRHSA-2000:087