Re: Local root through vulnerability in ping on linux.

[Matthew Wilson <msw () REDHAT COM>]

> Gerrie wrote on 19 August 2000 12:18 
> Unfotunately I am not aware of any kernel issues 
> concerning
> ping, but
> maybe the following is usefull for you or anyone else.

This is a code path only executed when running as root, so
there's no explot here.  It's a simple buffer overflow
caused by such a large packet.  If a non-root user runs
this, ping exits.

See
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16677
for more detail.