CVE-2002-0423

The CVE-2002-0423 entry concerns efingerd 1.5 and earlier (potentially up to 1.61). The vulnerability is a buffer overflow in the finger service triggered by a finger request from an IP with a long hostname resolved via reverse DNS, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possi...

CVE-2002-0423

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...