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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.10534
Category:Finger abuses
Title:FreeBSD 4.1.1 Finger
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

There is a bug in the remote finger service that allows anyone to read
arbitrary files on this host by doing a 'finger' command on the name of
targeted file.

For instance :

finger /etc/passwd@target


Will display the content of /etc/passwd

Solution : disable the finger service in /etc/inetd.conf and restart the inetd
process, or upgrade your finger daemon

Risk factor : High

Cross-Ref: BugTraq ID: 1803
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2000-0915
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1803
Bugtraq: 20001002 [sa2c@and.or.jp: bin/21704: enabling fingerd makes files world readable] (Google Search)
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-10/0017.html
FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-00:54
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:54.fingerd.asc
http://www.osvdb.org/433
XForce ISS Database: freebsd-fingerd-files(5385)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5385
CopyrightThis script is Copyright (C) 2000 Renaud Deraison

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