CVE-2002-2244

medium

Description

Akfingerd 0.5 and earlier versions allow local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a .plan with a symlink to /dev/urandom or other device, then disconnecting while data is being transferred, which causes a SIGPIPE error that Akfingerd cannot handle.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10795

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6324

http://synflood.at/akfingerd/

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-12/0049.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2002-12-31

Updated: 2017-07-29

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium