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Rwhoisd is a publicly available RWHOIS server daemon for Unix based systems developed and maintained by Network Solutions Inc. Rwhoisd contains a remotely exploitable format string vulnerability. It is possible to overwrite memory by if a client supplies malicious format specifiers as the argument to the '-soa' directive. Attackers may be able to execute arbitrary code on affected hosts.

Rwhoisd is a publicly available RWHOIS server daemon for Unix based systems developed and maintained by Network Solutions Inc. Rwhoisd contains a remotely exploitable format string vulnerability. It is possible to overwrite memory by if a client supplies malicious format specifiers as the argument to the '-soa' directive. Attackers may be able to execute arbitrary code on affected hosts.