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Debian: DSA 892-1 Critical: Awstats Remote Access Issue

Updated package.. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 892-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze November 10th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : awstats Vulnerability : missing input sanitising Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2005-1527 Debian Bugs : 322591 334833 336137 Peter Vreugdenhil discovered that awstats, a featureful web server log analyser, passes user-supplied data to an eval() function, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary Perl commands. The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 6.4-1sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 6.4-1.1. 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 3.1 alias sarge - -------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 918435 056e6fb0c7351b17fe5bbbe0aa1297b1 Size/MD5 checksum: 18257 c4efeefcab00fdda3c53e74e32cc0aab Size/MD5 checksum: 589 82449cbf170952a0e5d31648c7943656 Architecture independent components: Size/MD5 checksum: 728430 ed12fcb3a2a00b4f440dc9091a2ca78d These files will probably be moved into thestable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb https://www.debian.org/security/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory. updated, package, --------------------------------------------------------------------------debian. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Nov 10, 2005 •Critical Debian