CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2002-0423

Published: Aug 12, 2002 | Modified: Sep 05, 2008
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
10 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Buffer overflow in efingerd 1.5 and earlier, and possibly up to 1.61, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a finger request from an IP address with a long hostname that is obtained via a reverse DNS lookup.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Efingerd Efingerd 1.3 (including) 1.3 (including)
Efingerd Efingerd 1.6.1 (including) 1.6.1 (including)

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