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Re: OpenVMS fingerd remote stack overflow



On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 12:08:53AM +0100, Shaun Colley wrote:
The MultiNet finger service runs on port 79 by default (like other finger
servers) and takes a username to query.  A long string (~250+ or so bytes)
will cause a stack overflow, giving control of a saved return address and
hence the program counter (PC).

Hahahaha, welcome to 1988!

Old software can be so much fun.

  http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/unix-jun72/2008-May/000126.html
  http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/unix-jun72/2008-May/000250.html

Alex

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