The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Unspecified vulnerability in ping.c in iputils 20020927, 20070202, 20071127, and 20100214 on Mandriva     Linux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang) via a crafted echo response.
    (CVE-2010-2529)

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CVE-2010-2529 iputils: denial of service vulnerability in ping

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Ovidiu Mara reported a vulnerability in ping.c (iputils) that could cause ping to hang when responding to a malicious echo reply (CVE-2010-2529). The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.

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The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201412-08 (Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2010)

    Vulnerabilities have been discovered in the packages listed below.
      Please review the CVE identifiers in the Reference section for details.
      Insight       Perl Tk Module       Source-Navigator       Tk       Partimage       Mlmmj       acl       Xinit       gzip       ncompress       liblzw       splashutils       GNU M4       KDE Display Manager       GTK+       KGet       dvipng       Beanstalk       Policy Mount       pam_krb5       GNU gv       LFTP       Uzbl       Slim       Bitdefender Console       iputils       DVBStreamer   Impact :

    A context-dependent attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges,       execute arbitrary code, cause Denial of Service, obtain sensitive       information, or otherwise bypass security restrictions.
  Workaround :

    There are no known workarounds at this time.

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
217260	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2010-2529	Nessus	Misc.	3/3/2025	3/3/2025	high
48308	Fedora 13 : iputils-20071127-12.fc13 (2010-12273)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	8/12/2010	1/11/2021	medium
48196	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : iputils (MDVSA-2010:138)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	7/30/2010	1/6/2021	medium
79961	GLSA-201412-08 : Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2010	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	12/15/2014	1/6/2021	critical
48359	Fedora 12 : iputils-20071127-12.fc12 (2010-12252)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	8/18/2010	1/11/2021	medium
65558	Debian DSA-2645-1 : inetutils - denial of service	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	3/15/2013	1/11/2021	medium

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