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Online Arts DailyDose Execution of Arbitrary Commands
Secunia Advisory: SA10181
Release Date: 2003-11-11
Last Update: 2003-11-14
Popularity: 5,004 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:Online Arts DailyDose 1.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in DailyDose, which can be exploited by malicious people to execute arbitrary commands.

The problem is that the "temp" parameter isn't properly verified. This makes it possible to to supply meta characters and arbitrary commands.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.1.

Solution:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly verified or hardcode the data file names.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Alexey Sintsov

Changelog:
2003-10-14: Updated description.


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