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Gentoo GLSA-200501-36 High: AWStats Remote Code Execution Advisory

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Calendar Grey February 14, 2005
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Gentoo Linux Security Report GLSA 202301-45 covers vulnerabilities in AWStats with critical priority insights.
Version 6.3 of AWStats only partially fixed the input validation flaws

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory [UPDATE] GLSA 200501-36:03 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: AWStats: Remote code execution Date: January 25, 2005 Updated: February 14, 2005 Bugs: #77963, #81775 ID: 200501-36:03

Update ===== Version 6.3 of AWStats only partially fixed the input validation flaws. Furthermore, another flaw leading to unwanted information disclosure was found and fixed in AWStats.
The updated sections appear below.
Synopsis ======= AWStats fails to validate certain input, which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code or to the leak of information.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-www/awst...

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