full-disclosure - Re: [iputils] Integer overflow in iputils ping/ping6 tools

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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:10:36 +1030
From: Frankie Cutlass <frankiecutlass12@...il.com>
To: paul.szabo@...ney.edu.au
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: [iputils] Integer overflow in iputils
	ping/ping6 tools

Incorrect. Ping is setuid root but it drops privs before reaching this
code path. Even if you could exploit that for root (you cant) all you
would end up with is a shell as your uid and a raw socket..

>Fork bombs do not run privileged, but /bin/ping is setuid root.
>
>Cheers, Paul
>
>Paul Szabo   psz () maths usyd edu au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
>School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia

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