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Date:      Fri, 11 Sep 1998 20:25:33 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Michal Listos <mcl@mtl.pl>
To:        Hector Gonzalez Jaime <cacho@ns.iteso.mx>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fingerd exploit 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9809112024350.18423-100000@Amnesiac.123.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980911124340.7689A-100000@naserv.gdl.iteso.mx>

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On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Hector Gonzalez Jaime wrote:

> Maybe it has something to do with a message in bugtraq (like a month ago) 
> about finger forwarding?  It affected Solaris/SunOS, and it has something 
> to do with fingerd allowing you to do this:
> 
> finger user@host.one@host.two@host.three@so.on
> 
> FreeBSD's fingerd lets you do this one, don't know if it hurts or not.
>From FreeBSD's fingerd manual page:

     -s      Enable secure mode.  Queries without a user name are rejected and
             forwarding of queries to other remote hosts is denied.

						Michal

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