Mageia 2021-0024: awstats security update

It was discovered that Awstats was vulnerable to path traversal attacks. A remote unauthenticated attacker could leverage that to perform arbitrary code execution. The previous fix did not fully address the issue when the default /etc/awstats/awstats.conf is not present (CVE-2020-29600).

MGASA-2021-0024 - Updated awstats package fixes a security vulnerability

Publication date: 14 Jan 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0024.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7
CVE: CVE-2020-29600

It was discovered that Awstats was vulnerable to path traversal attacks. A
remote unauthenticated attacker could leverage that to perform arbitrary code
execution. The previous fix did not fully address the issue when the default
/etc/awstats/awstats.conf is not present (CVE-2020-29600).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27920
- https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2020/dla-2506
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it./thread/47QZWKSRZYZFESYTLSW7A6KVKOOPL7IV/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-29600

SRPMS:
- 7/core/awstats-7.7-1.1.mga7