Debian Linux Security Advisory 2645-1 - Ovidiu Mara reported in 2010 a vulnerability in the ping util, commonly used by system and network administrators. By carefully crafting ICMP responses, an attacker could make the ping command hangs.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2010-138 - Ovidiu Mara reported a vulnerability in ping.c (iputils) that could cause ping to hang when responding to a malicious echo reply. The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.
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