CVE-2002-2244 Information

Description

Akfingerd 0.5 and earlier versions allow local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a .plan with a symlink to /dev/urandom or other device then disconnecting while data is being transferred which causes a SIGPIPE error that Akfingerd cannot handle.

Reference

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-12/0049.html http://synflood.at/akfingerd/ http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6324 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10795