[7540] in bugtraq
Re: Solaris 2.5.1/2.6 fingerd bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Garnett)
Thu Aug 6 12:33:32 1998
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 13:25:21 -0600
Reply-To: James Garnett <garnett@BOGUS.CS.COLORADO.EDU>
From: James Garnett <garnett@BOGUS.CS.COLORADO.EDU>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Aug 1998 11:39:02 EDT."
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Fiji (jfay) wrote:
> try finger @host@host@host....145 times.... This should run the # of
> processes in excess of 1500 and shoot the system load up to at least 13.5.
>
> You can also do a finger @hosta@hostb where hostb is a machine running
> 2.5.1 or 2.6. Now this has not been confirmed on Solaris (x86). The bug id
> is 4161606 but yet there is no patch available as of today.
Yep, same thing happens for x86 running 2.6.
~james
