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
Tim Newsham http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/