__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN AWStats Vulnerabilities [Debian Security Advisory DSA-682-1] February 15, 2005 18:00 GMT Number P-140 ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: Vulnerabilities were found in Advanced Web Statistics (AWStats), a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web (but also ftp or mail) server statistics, graphically. PLATFORM: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody) DAMAGE: In addition to vulnerabilities described in CAN-2005-0116, missing input sanitising can cause arbitrary commands to be executed. SOLUTION: Apply the updated packages. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is MEDIUM. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an ASSESSMENT: attacker to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the web server, typically a non-privileged user. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-140.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-682 CVE/CAN: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= CAN-2005-0363 ______________________________________________________________________________ [***** Start Debian Security Advisory DSA-682-1 *****] Debian Security Advisory DSA-682-1 awstats -- missing input sanitising Date Reported: 15 Feb 2005 Affected Packages: awstats Vulnerable: Yes Security database references: In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 294488. In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CAN-2005-0363. More information: 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. Fixed in: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody) Source: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/awstats/awstats_4.0-0.woody.2. dsc http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/awstats/awstats_4.0-0.woody.2. diff.gz http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/awstats/awstats_4.0.orig.tar.gz Architecture-independent component: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/awstats/awstats_4.0-0.woody.2 _all.deb MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory. 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