[7547] in bugtraq
Re: Solaris 2.5.1/2.6 fingerd bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Casper Dik)
Thu Aug 6 14:54:02 1998
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 20:29:49 +0200
Reply-To: Casper Dik <casper@HOLLAND.SUN.COM>
From: Casper Dik <casper@HOLLAND.SUN.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Aug 1998 13:25:21 MDT."
<199808051925.NAA27149@bogus.cs.colorado.edu>
>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.
It's not new nor reintroduced. It's been in fingerd forever.
Casper
