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[DSA682] DSA-682-1 awstats

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-682-1 awstats

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

In addition to CVE-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.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-682
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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