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nslookup on aix 4.x


From: andreas.mueller () STUDENT UNI-TUEBINGEN DE (Andreas Mueller)
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 01:12:46 +0100


        hello !

if nslookup is installed with the s-bit all users can
create and overwrite files owned by root. this works
in the interactive mode, when dumping dns-records to a
file (with ls -d DOMAINNAME > FILE for example).
i checked it on aix 4.2.0, 4.2.1 and 4.1.1, where nslookup
is installed suid-root by default. maybe its
possible to create usable files with an own "special"
nameserver. or maybe its possible to pipe the answers
to a script to create the files you want, but i haven't
tried this.

        greetings,
        
                        Andreas

p.s.: if this has already been reported to this list - sorry for
        my lazyness to search an archive of bugtraq.
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