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Debian Security Advisory DSA 066-1 (cfingerd)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to cfingerd announced via advisory DSA 066-1.
Insight
Insight
Steven van Acker reported on bugtraq that the version of cfingerd (a configurable finger daemon) as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 suffers from two problems: 1. The code that reads configuration files (files in which $ commands are expanded) copied its input to a buffer without checking for a buffer overflow. When the ALLOW_LINE_PARSING feature is enabled that code is used for reading users files as well, so local users could exploit this. 2. There also was a printf call in the same routine that did not protect against printf format attacks. Since ALLOW_LINE_PARSING is enabled in the default /etc/cfingerd.conf local users could use this to gain root access. This has been fixed in version 1.4.1-1.2, and we recommend that you upgrade
Solution
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20066-1