Vulnerability CVE-2002-0423


Published: 2002-08-12   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
10/10
10/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Efingerd -> Efingerd 

 References:
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8380.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4239
http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/efingerd/efingerd_1.5.tar.gz
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-03/0050.html

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