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
- 20021205 Multiple vulnerabilities in akfingerd mailing-list
- 6324 vdb-entry
- http://synflood.at/akfingerd/
- akfingerd-plan-symlink-dos(10795) vdb-entry