Debian DSA-049-1 : cfingerd

Megyer Laszlo report on Bugtraq that the cfingerd daemon as distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 was not careful in its logging code. By combining this with an off-by-one error in the code that copied the username from an ident response cfingerd could be exploited by a remote user. Since cfinger...

CVE-2001-0609

CVE-2001-0609 affects Infodrom cfingerd 1.4.3 and earlier. A format string vulnerability in the ident reply that is passed to the syslog function enables a remote attacker to gain additional privileges. Several connected sources corroborate that cfingerd’s logging/ident handling allows privilege ...

CVE-2001-0609

Format string vulnerability in Infodrom cfingerd 1.4.3 and earlier allows a remote attacker to gain additional privileges via a malformed ident reply that is passed to the syslog function...