CVE-2001-0735: Infodrom Cfingerd

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in cfingerd 1.4.3 and earlier with the ALLOW_LINE_PARSING option enabled allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long line in the .nofinger file.

Affected products

  • Infodrom Cfingerd: version 1.4.1 only; version 1.4.2 only; version 1.4.3 only

Published 2001-10-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.