CVE-2007-6211

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-12-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Send ICMP Nasty Garbage (sing) on Debian GNU/Linux allows local users to append to arbitrary files and gain privileges via the -L (output log file) option. NOTE: this issue is only a vulnerability in limited environments, since sing is not installed setuid, and the administrator would need to override a non-setuid default during installation.

Affected products

Sing: 1.1

References

http://osvdb.org/44157
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3412
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484472/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484591/100/200/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26679
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38822
http://osvdb.org/44157
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3412
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484472/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484591/100/200/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26679
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38822

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