CVE-2004-2273: Evan Sims Effingerd

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

efFingerD 0.2.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a packet with a single byte, which triggers a "Wrong protocol or connection state" error.

Affected products

Published 2004-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.