CVEvulnerability
CVE-2002-0423
10.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2002-08-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
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 configurations
• efingerd efingerd 1.3
• efingerd efingerd 1.6.1
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-03/0050.html archives.neohapsis.com
- http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/efingerd/efingerd_1.5.tar.gz melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8380.php Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4239 Vendor Advisory
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-03/0050.html archives.neohapsis.com
- http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/efingerd/efingerd_1.5.tar.gz melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8380.php Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4239 Vendor Advisory