CVE-2013-1049

CRITICAL 10.0CVE-2013-1049 · Published 14/03/2013 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2013-1049 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability affecting cfingerd (debian).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.1%, higher than 87.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
cfingerd debian	`= 1.4.3-3`	No fix yet

Description

Buffer overflow in the RFC1413 (ident) client in cfingerd 1.4.3-3 allows remote IDENT servers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted response.

References

bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
osvdb.org/90747
debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2635 · Vendor Advisory
bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cfingerd/+bug/1104425 · Patch

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