Package: netkit-base
Around line 609 of ping.c the following comment can be found:
pinger -- Compose and transmit an ICMP ECHO REQUEST packet. The IP
packet will be added on by the kernel. The ID field is our UNIX
process ID,
Then around line 422:
ident = getpid() & 0xFFFF;
Not that I am terribly bothered by this personally, but I'd imagine
there are a few paranoid people out there that would be. In this day and
age, can you blame them? :)
If you lack the time to find a replacement source for 'ident', then
please let me know and I will spend some time on it.
If you don't see this as a bug, can you at least notify upstream of it
anyway. This is the sort of thing that does no damage but ends up in
some future time the subject of a security advisory which will get
counted as part of the stats in Microsoft's marketing material. :)
Thanks,
David.
--
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated
simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
-- Charles Mingus (1922-1979), Musician and composer
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