CVE-2007-6211 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the "Send ICMP Nasty Garbage (sing)" utility on Debian GNU/Linux. An attacker can leverage the -L option to append to arbitrary files, potentially gaining elevated privileges. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.2, indicating high severity due to local access, low attack complexity, and complete impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not actively exploited in the wild and not on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sing:sing:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.