CVE
- Id
- 105
- CVE No.
- CVE-1999-0105
- Status
- Candidate
- Description
- finger allows recursive searches by using a long string of @ symbols.
- Phase
- Proposed (19990726)
- Votes
- MODIFY(3) Baker, Frech, Shostack | NOOP(1) Christey | REJECT(1) Northcutt
- Comments
- Shostack> fingerD | Frech> XF:finger-bomb | Christey> aka redirection or forwarding requests? (but then might | overlap CVE-1999-0106) | Baker> should change description to indicate the recursive searching can consume enough system resources to cause a DoS.