Re: SunOS 4.1.4 fingerd
Taner Halicioglu (taner@sdsc.edu)
Fri, 17 May 1996 09:56:21 -0700
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Dave Dittrich wrote:
> The trick, as I learned it, was to use @@XXX.com on Ultrix systems.
> After a quick test, I notice that single letters and "." don't work on
> Ultrix, but any digit or "@" does. Go figure. Probably some Berkeley
> student had a hangover the day they coded finger?
Well, the normal finger program will finger @localhost if you specify
simply:
finger @
so when you do, for example:
finger @@foo.bar.com
foo.bar.com will receive the finger with the data "@" and then proceed to
finger itself (localhost). A simple denial of service attack is to do:
finger @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@[...]@@@foo.bar.com
You can imagine what this will cause... :-) I trivial fix is to look for
an '@' sign in the sent string (in in.fingerd) and deny the finger.
-Taner
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