[7556] in bugtraq
Re: Solaris 2.5.1/2.6 fingerd bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph Moran)
Fri Aug 7 15:46:00 1998
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:49:18 -0400
Reply-To: Joseph Moran <josephm@TOAD.NET>
From: Joseph Moran <josephm@TOAD.NET>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <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.
>
> ~james
For what it's worth, the two 2.5.1 machines I currently run don't have
this problem. Both were installed using 2.5.1 HW:4/97 media and then
subsequently brought up to Generic_103640-21 via the current (ie. a few
weeks ago) 2.5.1_Recommended kit. The machines are a sparc 2 and 10.
jm
