CVE-2002-0424

Publication date

2003-04-02 05:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

efingerd 1.61 and earlier, when configured without the -u option, executes .efingerd files as the efingerd user (typically "nobody"), which allows local users to gain privileges as the efingerd user by modifying their own .efingerd file and running finger.