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