CVE-2002-0423 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-03/0050.html http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/efingerd/efingerd_1.5.tar.gz http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8380.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4239