Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been discovered in CS DNS Lookup, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
CS DNS Lookup "ip" Command Injection Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA34899
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34899/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been discovered in CS DNS Lookup, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
Input passed to the "ip" parameter in index.php is not properly
verified before being used in a "system()" call. This can be
exploited to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands.
This is related to:
SA34884
SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly verified.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Originally reported in CS Whois Lookup by SirGod.
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA34884:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34884/
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