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Fake Identd is an open source Ident server designed to return the same information to all incoming requests. It is implemented by Tomi Ollila, and available for Linux and a number of other Unix based operating systems. Reportedly, some versions of Fake Identd fail to properly handle long client requests. A specially formatted request split across multiple TCP packets may cause an internal buffer to overflow. Reportedly, execution of arbitrary code as the Fake Identd server process is possible.

Fake Identd is an open source Ident server designed to return the same information to all incoming requests. It is implemented by Tomi Ollila, and available for Linux and a number of other Unix based operating systems. Reportedly, some versions of Fake Identd fail to properly handle long client requests. A specially formatted request split across multiple TCP packets may cause an internal buffer to overflow. Reportedly, execution of arbitrary code as the Fake Identd server process is possible.