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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1058-1 (awstats)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.1

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to awstats announced via advisory DSA 1058-1. Hendrik Weimer discovered that specially crafted web requests can cause awstats, a powerful and featureful web server log analyzer, to execute arbitrary commands. The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

Solution

Solution

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 6.4-1sarge2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 6.5-2. We recommend that you upgrade your awstats package. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201058-1

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