CVE-2004-2273

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2004-2273 · Published 31/12/2004 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2004-2273 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting effingerd (evan sims).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.2%, higher than 69.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
effingerd evan_sims	`= 0.2.12`	No fix yet

Description

efFingerD 0.2.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a packet with a single byte, which triggers a "Wrong protocol or connection state" error.

References

secunia.com/advisories/11573 · Vendor Advisory
osvdb.org/5992

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