mtr 0.45, 0.46

Few days ago, a new version of mtr has been released. Authors wrote in CHANGELOG, that they fixed a non-exploitable buffer overflow. In fact, this vulnerability is very easly exploitable and allows attacker to gain access to raw socket, which makes possible ip spoofing and other malicious network...

CVE-2000-1213

ping in iputils before 20001010, as distributed on Red Hat Linux 6.2 through 7J and other operating systems, does not drop privileges after acquiring a raw socket, which increases ping's exposure to bugs that otherwise would occur at lower privileges...

Potential security problem with mtr

Hi. One of my users asked me to install mtr, most adequately described as a GUI:ed combination of traceroute and ping. I thought it looked cool, and had a closer look. In this mail follows a warning about a potential security problem with this program if installed as suggested. No exploit has bee...