Vulnerability: Local User Flooding in Traceroute with Large Waittime Option
CVE-2000-0314 · MEDIUM Severity
AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
traceroute in NetBSD 1.3.3 and Linux systems allows local users to flood other systems by providing traceroute with a large waittime (-w) option, which is not parsed properly and sets the time delay for sending packets to zero.
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