You don’t know what you don’t know. There was a UNIX bug that caused the system to crash or execute code just by being fingered.[1] > Connect to your fingerd d

You don’t know what you don’t know. There was a UNIX bug that caused the system to crash or execute code just by being fingered.[1] > Connect to your fingerd daemon and type more than 528 (= 512 + 16) characters (any will do). If your daemon crashes or terminates the connection with no data sent back, you probably have the vulnerability. [1] http://seclab.cs.ucdavis.edu/projects/vulnerabilities/doves/1.html http://seclab.cs.ucdavis.edu/projects/vulnerabilities/doves/...