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Finger Redirection Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

Information

Severity

Severity

Low

Family

Family

Finger abuses

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

2.1

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

12 years ago

Modified

Modified

4 years ago

Summary

This host is running Finger service and is prone to denial of service vulnerability.

Insight

Insight

The flaw exists due to finger daemon allows redirecting a finger request to remote sites using the form finger 'username@hostname1@hostname2'.

Affected Software

Affected Software

GNU Finger.

Solution

Solution

Upgrade to GNU finger 1.37 or later.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)