Vulnerability in Akfingerd

CVE-2002-2244

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.

Vulnerability class: Race Condition

EPSS: 0.002 (13.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Akfingerd — versions 0.5
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References