USN-285-1: awstats vulnerability

23 May 2006

awstats vulnerability

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Details

AWStats did not properly sanitize the 'migrate' CGI parameter. If the
update of the stats via web front-end is allowed, a remote attacker
could execute arbitrary commands on the server with the privileges of
the AWStats server.

This does not affect AWStats installations which only build static
pages.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 5.10
  • awstats -
Ubuntu 5.04
  • awstats -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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