CVE

Id
2780  
CVE No.
CVE-2000-1213  
Status
Candidate  
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.  
Phase
Proposed (20020830)  
Votes
ACCEPT(7) Armstrong, Baker, Cole, Cox, Foat, Green, Wall | MODIFY(1) Frech  
Comments
Frech> XF:iputils-ping-privileges(11090)