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

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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:22:28 +0100
From: Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@...il.com>
To: Frankie Cutlass <frankiecutlass12@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, paul.szabo@...ney.edu.au
Subject: Re: [iputils] Integer overflow in iputils
 ping/ping6 tools

technically he never stated that ping keeps the elevated privileges, just
that the binary itself is setuid root, which is correct.

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 5:40 AM, Frankie Cutlass <frankiecutlass12@...il.com
> wrote:

> 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..
>
>
-- 
Ferenc Kovács
@Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu

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