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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2005.0152 -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 682-1
New awstats packages fix arbitrary command execution
16 February 2005
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: awstats
Publisher: Debian
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
Linux variants
UNIX variants
BSD variants
Windows
Impact: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands
Access: Remote/Unauthenticated
CVE Names: CAN-2005-0363 CAN-2005-0116
Ref: ESB-2005.0049
Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-682
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 682-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
February 15th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : awstats
Vulnerability : missing input sanitising
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-2005-0363
Debian Bug : 294488
In addition to CAN-2005-0116 more vulnerabilities have been found in
awstats, a powerful and featureful web server log analyzer with a CGI
frontend. Missing input sanitising can cause arbitrary commands to be
executed.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.0-0.woody.2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 6.2-1.2.
We recommend that you upgrade your awstats package.
Upgrade Instructions
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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 3.0 alias woody
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/awstats/awstats_4.0-0.woody.2.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 574 16e16b5bee949c6d82b8d9f7a3357d64
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/awstats/awstats_4.0-0.woody.2.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 8779 8ff8db0ad2c91038043a045c0f1f2924
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/awstats/awstats_4.0.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 472738 58b68e7d5f3be4437e64c5425eb6513e
Architecture independent components:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/awstats/awstats_4.0-0.woody.2_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 356838 309cd1baaf3f0ffb5126bb7850d061f1
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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