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iputils: denial of service

Package(s):iputils CVE #(s):CVE-2010-2529
Created:July 23, 2010 Updated:March 15, 2013
Description: From the Mandriva advisory:

Ovidiu Mara reported a vulnerability in ping.c (iputils) that could cause ping to hang when responding to a malicious echo reply.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2010-12252 2010-08-07
Pardus 2010-110 2010-08-11
Fedora FEDORA-2010-12273 2010-08-07
Mandriva MDVSA-2010:138 2010-07-23
Debian DSA-2645-1 2013-03-14
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