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CVE-2000-1213
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2000-10-18 · updated 2026-06-16
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 products
- Immunix: 6.2
- iputils: through 2000-10-10
- RedHat Linux: 6.2, 7.0
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-10/0429.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=97249980727834&w=2
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-087.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-10/0429.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=97249980727834&w=2
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-087.html
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