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Morris Worm fingerd Stack Buffer Overflow

Disclosed
Nov 2, 1988

Description

This module exploits a stack buffer overflow in fingerd on 4.3BSD.

This vulnerability was exploited by the Morris worm in 1988-11-02.
Cliff Stoll reports on the worm in the epilogue of The Cuckoo's Egg.

Currently, only bsd/vax/shell_reverse_tcp is supported.
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