[SECURITY] [DSA 682-1] New awstats packages fix arbitrary command execution

Debian Security Advisory DSA 682-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
February 15th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

Package : awstats
Vulnerability : missing input sanitising
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-2005-0363
Debian Bug : 294488

In addition to CAN-2005-0116 more vulnerabilities have been found in
awstats, a powerful and featureful web server log analyzer with a CGI
frontend. Missing input sanitising can cause arbitrary commands to be
executed.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.0-0.woody.2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 6.2-1.2.

We recommend that you upgrade your awstats package.

Upgrade Instructions

wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/awstats/awstats_4.0-0.woody.2.dsc
  Size/MD5 checksum:      574 16e16b5bee949c6d82b8d9f7a3357d64
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/awstats/awstats_4.0-0.woody.2.diff.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:     8779 8ff8db0ad2c91038043a045c0f1f2924
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/awstats/awstats_4.0.orig.tar.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:   472738 58b68e7d5f3be4437e64c5425eb6513e

Architecture independent components:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/awstats/awstats_4.0-0.woody.2_all.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   356838 309cd1baaf3f0ffb5126bb7850d061f1

These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.

For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: [email protected]
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/&lt;pkg&gt;