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| Test ID: | 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.10804 |
| Category: | Gain a shell remotely |
| Title: | rwhois format string attack (2) |
| Summary: | NOSUMMARY |
| Description: | Description: The remote rwhois daemon is vulnerable to a format string attack when supplied malformed arguments to a malformed request. (such as %p%p%p) An attacker may use this flaw to gain a shell on this host. *** Note that Nessus solely relied on the banner version to *** issue this warning. If you manually patched rwhoisd, you *** may not be vulnerable to this flaw Risk factor : High Solution : Disable this service or upgrade to version 1.5.7.3 or newer |
| Cross-Ref: |
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2001-0913 Bugtraq: 20011122 [NetGuard Security] NSI Rwhoisd another Remote Format String Vulnerability (Google Search) http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100655265508104&w=2 |
| Copyright | This script is Copyright (C) 2001 Renaud Deraison |
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