Re: Solaris 2.5.1/2.6 fingerd bug

[garnett () BOGUS CS COLORADO EDU (James Garnett)]

Fiji (jfay) wrote:
> try finger @host@host@host....145 times.... This should run the # of
> processes in excess of 1500 and shoot the system load up to at least 13.5.
>
> You can also do a finger @hosta@hostb where hostb is a machine running
> 2.5.1 or 2.6. Now this has not been confirmed on Solaris (x86). The bug id
> is 4161606 but yet there is no patch available as of today.

Yep, same thing happens for x86 running 2.6.

~james