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security flaw

Published Aug 31, 2002

Description

Buffer overflows in the (1) outpack or (2) buf variables of ping in iputils before 20001010, as distributed on Red Hat Linux 6.2 through 7J and other operating systems, may allow local users to gain privileges.

Affected products

Remediation

Red Hat statement

This issue was fixed in the following products: - Red Hat Linux 6.2 - RHSA-2000:087 (2000-10-18) - Red Hat Linux 7.0 - RHSA-2000:087 (2000-10-18) - Red Hat Linux 7.0j - RHSA-2000:087 (2000-10-18)

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Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (10)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Aug 31, 2002
Updated Aug 8, 2024
Reserved Aug 30, 2002
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date Oct 18, 2000