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[DSA049] DSA-049-1 cfingerd

Vulnerability Assessment Summary DSA-049-1 cfingerd Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment Megyer Laszlo report on Bugtraq that the cfingerd daemon as distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 was not careful in its logging code. By combining this with an off-by-one error in the code that copied the username from an ident response cfingerd could be exploited by a remote user. Since cfingerd does not drop its root rights until after it has acertaind which user to finger a possible hacker can gain root rights. This has been fixed in version 1.4.1-1.1, and we recommend that you upgrade your cfingerd package immediately. Note: this advisory was previously posted as DSA-048-1 by mistake. Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-049 Network Security Threat Level: High Networks Security ID: 2576 Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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