PROPOSAL: Cluster 24 - FINGER (6 candidates)

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• Subject: PROPOSAL: Cluster 24 - FINGER (6 candidates)
• From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@linus.mitre.org>
• Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 20:41:31 -0400 (EDT)
• Sender: owner-cve-editorial-board-list@lists.mitre.org

The following candidates all deal with bugs in the finger service.  If
running finger is not a vulnerability, what if finger has a bug?  If
the bug causes a denial of service or other problem outside the scope
of finger itself, then that's a CVE vulnerability based on other
portions of the definition.

But what if the bug just releases more user information than it should
have?  In this case, I argue that these are vulnerabilities, since the
finger application in question does *not* work as intended.

- Steve



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Candidate: CAN-1999-0105
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Category: SF

finger allows recursive searches by using a long string of @ symbols.

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Candidate: CAN-1999-0106
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Finger redirection allows finger bombs.

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Candidate: CAN-1999-0197
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finger 0@host on some systems may print information on some user accounts.

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Candidate: CAN-1999-0198
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finger .@host on some systems may print information on some user accounts.

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Candidate: CAN-1999-0259
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cfingerd lists all users on a system via search.**@target.

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Candidate: CAN-1999-0492
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Reference: BUGTRAQ:Apr23,1999

The ffingerd 1.19 allows remote attackers to identify users on the
target system based on its responses.

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