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.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2:1.6-3.1+squeeze2. For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2:1.9-2. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2:1.9-2. We recommend that you upgrade your inetutils packages.

The inetuitls are a collection of basic internet services, among them ftp, inetd, ping, syslog, talk, telnet, and system configuration tools.

inetutils on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2645.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25