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

[Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l () gmail com>]

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 () gmail 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..
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Ferenc Kovács
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