Re: Local root through vulnerability in ping on linux.

["Rodrigo Barbosa (aka morcego)" <rodrigob () CONECTIVA COM BR>]

On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 08:08:54PM -0500, Joe User wrote:
> hmmmmm...different results here
>
> [root@atralakh phorlakh]# uname -a
> Linux atralakh 2.2.16 #2 Thu Aug 3 16:49:05 CDT 2000 i586 unknown
> [root@atralakh phorlakh]# ping -c 1 -s 65689 localhost
> ping: packet size too large.
> [root@atralakh phorlakh]# ping -c 1 -s 65690 localhost
> ping: packet size too large.
> [root@atralakh phorlakh]#
>
> Tried to get version info off ping, none available. I rolled this system
> together myself, so that might have something to do with it (: May be
> specific to RedHat or one of the distros...author of original post: please
> post more information regarding what system it was, and what it included
> [in relation to the problem]...just "possible r00t in 2.2.16" isn't quite
> enough for many of us, thanks (:

No problems here ...

morcego [/root] # more /etc/conectiva-release 
Conectiva Linux 5.9 Beta
morcego [/root] # rpm -qf /bin/ping
netkit-base-0.16-6cl
morcego [/root] # uname -a
Linux morcego.distro.conectiva 2.2.17pre16 #1 Thu Aug 17 10:24:04 EDT 2000 i586 unknown
morcego [/root] # ping -c 1 -s 65689 localhost
ping: packet size too large.
morcego [/root] # ping -c 1 -s 65690 localhost
ping: packet size too large.


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