Finger.Version.Query

Alias(es) Version.Query
Release Date Sep 11, 2006
Severity info
Impact Information gathering for further attack on fingerd daemon.
Description It indicates a possible attempt to find finger daemon version for information gathering. Fingerd daemon provides information such as name, contact info of users who are logged-on to the system to a client request. This log is generated when finger daemon version is probed by a malicious user, it may be used for further attack on the finger daemon.
Affected Products Any system running finger daemon.
Recommended Actions The default action has been set to pass. If this signature is not triggered by legitimate traffic in your network environment, change its action to reset session.
Coverage IPS VCM
Reference/s http://www.sans.org/y2k/fingerd.htm

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