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If through a vulnerability assessment, a network security issue is detected for the vulnerability below, applying the appropriate security patches in a timely matter is very important. If you have detected that your system has already been compromised, following CERT's Network Security recovery document will assist with recommended steps for system recovery. Home >> Browse Vulnerability Assessment Database >> Ubuntu Local Security Checks >> USN167-1 : awstats vulnerability Vulnerability Assessment Details
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USN167-1 : awstats vulnerability |
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awstats vulnerability Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment Summary : The remote package "awstats" is missing a security patch. Description : Peter Vreugdenhil discovered a command injection vulnerability in AWStats. As part of the statistics reporting function, AWStats displays information about the most common referrer values that caused users to visit the website. Referer URLs could be crafted in a way that they contained arbitrary Perl code which would have been executed with the rights of the web server as soon as some user visited the referrer statistics page. Solution : Upgrade to : - awstats-6.3-1ubuntu0.1 (Ubuntu 5.04) Network Security Threat Level: High Networks Security ID: Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2005 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2005 Michel Arboi |
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