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Cfinger's search.**@host feature

Vulnerability Assessment Summary finger .@host feature Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment The remote host is running 'cfingerd', a finger daemon. There is a bug in the remote cfinger daemon which permits anyone to get the lists of the users of this system, when issuing the command : finger search.**@victim This information can in turn be used by a possible hacker to set up a brute force login attack against this host. Solution : use another finger daemon or disable this service in /etc/inetd.conf Network Security Threat Level: Low / Medium Networks Security ID: Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 1999 Renaud Deraison

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