CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-1213

7.5 HIGH Published 2000-10-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-10-18
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• immunix immunix 6.2 • iputils iputils (<= 2000-10-10) • redhat linux 6.2 • redhat linux 7.0

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-271 Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors weakness

References