Design/Logic Flaw

ping reads raw IP packets from the network to process responses in the prpack function. As part of processing a response ping has to reconstruct the IP header, the ICMP header and if present a "quoted packet," which represents the packet that generated an ICMP error. The quoted packet again has a...

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in FreeBSD

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary A vulnerability in FreeBSD ping has been discovered that could allow remote code execution. A remote host can trigger the memory safety bug, causing the ping program to crash. Ping runs inside a...