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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.10788
Category:Finger abuses
Title:Solaris finger disclosure
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

There is a bug in the remote finger service which, when triggered, allows
a user to force the remote finger daemon to display the list of the accounts
that have never been used, by issuing the request :

finger 'a b c d e f g h'@target

This list will help an attacker to guess the operating system type. It will
also tell him which accounts have never been used, which will often make him
focus his attacks on these accounts.

Solution : disable the finger service in /etc/inetd.conf and restart the inetd
process, or apply the relevant patches from Sun Microsystems.

Risk factor : Medium

Cross-Ref: BugTraq ID: 3457
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2001-1503
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3457
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-27116-1
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2001-q4/0016.html
XForce ISS Database: solaris-fingerd-list-accounts(7334)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7334
CopyrightThis script is Copyright (C) 2001 Renaud Deraison

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