traceroute vulnerability?

Subject: traceroute vulnerability?
From: Nathaniel Irons (beppo@bumppo.net)
Date: Mon Oct 23 2000 - 17:13:15 MDT

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LWN has been talking about a possible local root exploit for
traceroute since early October.

  <http://lwn.net/2000/1019/security.php3#traceroute>
  <http://listserv.securityportal.com/SCRIPTS/WA-SECURITYPORTAL.EXE?A2=ind0009&L=LINUX-SECURITY&P=R5573>

YDL's traceroute (1.4b5) appears to be vulnerable. Any word on an
update?

  -nat

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