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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.