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Debian 3.1 DSA-1058-1 Critical: Awstats Command Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey May 18, 2006
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Debian Advisory DSA 1062-1 highlights a critical vulnerability in the curl package. Immediate update is suggested to reduce potential threats.
Updated package.

Summary


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.


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 at the end of this advisory:

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 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 591 bc33a94cbf5cb3fe89922f312434d0d6
Size/MD5 checksum: 18702 88fa1b4b53640c4b5b05deaca9a3c156
Size/MD5 checksum: 918435 056e6fb0c7351b17fe5bbbe0aa1297b1

Architecture independent components:

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