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

[Joseph Gernandez <neo () ERASED ORG>]

Something else to note about the ping bug everyone 
is raving about.. The program does not give a seg 
fault unless run as root, as far as I can see.

[root:/home/neo/c]# ping -c 1 -s 65690 localhost
WARNING: packet size 65690 is too large. Maximum 
is 65507
Segmentation fault
[root:/home/neo/c]# exit
exit
[neo:~/c]$ ping -c 1 -s 65690 localhost
Error: packet size 65690 is too large. Maximum is 
65507
[neo:~/c]$ 

This was on RedHat 6.2, with the default ping 
package.  Perhaps it's not as big a security problem 
as people have this far thought it was.

_neo