CVE-2000-1213: Immunix

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Immunix Immunix: version 6.2 only
• Iputils Iputils: up to and including 2000-10-10
• Red Hat Linux: version 6.2 only; version 7.0 only

Published 2000-10-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.