Debian 4.0 DSA-1679-1 Critical: Awstats Cross-Site Scripting Issue
debian
December 3, 2008
Morgan Todd discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in awstats,
a log file analyzer, involving the "config" request parameter (and
possibly others; CVE-2008-3714).
Summary
The unstable (sid) and testing (lenny) distribution will be fixed soon.
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 4.0 alias etch
Size/MD5 checksum: 20369 bbe38406f0402fd5b7be2d0a427223c8
Size/MD5 checksum: 1079 2fd97dfcfcbf48cbe0e4a1a431cb43bd
Size/MD5 checksum: 1041837 af6cbfbf470eb45f5238501813d6d1c6
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 837326 878a4f0ab2ccb36c324c0c171a6a39b5
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
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