Re: [RHSA-2000:087-02] Potential security problems in ping fixed.

[Vanja Hrustic <vanja () RELAYGROUP COM>]

On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, van der Kooij, Hugo wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> > Does this apply to 6.0 as well?
>
> As a rule of thumb:
> Any fix for 6.x is for all version of 6.x So if one is announced for 6.2
> you should considere 6.0 and 6.1 as suspect as well.
>
> Hugo.

[root@prod bin]# rpm -qf /bin/ping
netkit-base-0.10-37
[root@prod bin]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Linux release 6.1 (Cartman)
[root@prod bin]#

[root@test bin]# rpm -qf /bin/ping
iputils-20001010-1.6x
[root@test bin]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot)
[root@test bin]#

Ping is not the part of the same package in these 2 releases. --force
might work, but I'll wait for someone else to try first :)

btw, on RH 6.1:

[root@prod bin]# ping -c 1 -s 65690 localhost
WARNING: packet size 65690 is too large. Maximum is 65507
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
[root@prod bin]#

Vanja