CVE-2002-2048: Michael Baumer Pfinger

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in PFinger 0.7.8 client allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long query value passed to the (1) finger program, (2) -l, (3) -d, and (4) -t options. NOTE: if PFinger is not setuid or setgid, then this issue would not cross privilege boundaries and would not be considered a vulnerability.

Affected products

• Michael Baumer Pfinger: version 0.7.8 only

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.